Court Cases
This case ensures that arrested people are informed of their rights before questioning.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This amendment guarantees protection from self-incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This doctrine requires the government to treat all people equally under the law.
What is the equal protection clause?
Police found evidence against you by checking your phone, but they had a warrant. This amendment has not been violated.
What is an example of the 4th Amendment?
You are stopped by police, and they ask to search your backpack without a warrant. You say no, but they search it anyway because they don't like you. This right was violated.
What is the right to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures?
This case requires states to provide counsel for defendants in felony cases.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
Someone is executed due to a petty crime. This 8th Amendment doctrine forbids this.
What is an example of cruel and unusual punishment?
This doctrine protects people from having their private property taken for public use without something in return.
What is just compensation?
The government provides a lawyer to you because you are a sad, jobless loser. This right was respected.
What is an example of the right to an attorney?
You are arrested and held in jail for three years before your trial begins, even though you requested a court date multiple times. This right has been violated.
What is the right to a speedy trial?
The Supreme Court created the “exclusionary rule” in this case.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
This amendment guarantees the right to a fair and speedy trial.
What is the 6th Amendment?
To protect the general public, if a cop encounters something dangerous that requires immediate action while making an arrest, they can use this doctrine to not have to read the Miranda rights immediately.
What is the public safety exception?
You request a trial by jury for a civil case involving $2,000, but it is denied. This amendment protects your right.
What an example of the Seventh Amendment?
You are being charged for a crime that you were never informed of. Your rights are violated. This amendment ensures you know the nature of the charges being brought against you.
What is the 6th Amendment?
You have the right to remain silent when questioned. Anything you say or do may be used against you in a court of law...
What are the Miranda rights?
This amendment has been used to apply federal rights to the states in many legal cases.
What is the 14th Amendment?
You are tried twice for the same crime. The 5th Amendment has this doctrine that prevents this.
What is double jeopardy?
You go to jail for jaywalking, but your bail amount is $1,000,000. This doctrine will protect you from this.
What is excessive bail?
You are arrested, but during your trial, the judge refuses to let your lawyer question witnesses who are testifying against you. This 6th Amendment right has been violated.
What is the right to confront witnesses?
This phrase describes excluding any evidence exposed through other evidence obtained by an illegal search, seizure, or arrest.
What is the fruit of the poisonous tree? (Justice Felix Frankfurter)
No person can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without this.
What is due process of law?
You are jailed for a year without being formally charged. This doctrine will prevent this.
What is habeas corpus?
You are being tried by a jury in the 1950s in the South and they have no bias whatsoever (that's a first). This 6th Amendment right is upheld.
What is the right to an impartial jury?
You are charged with a crime, and during the trial, the prosecution does not share evidence that could prove your innocence. This rule has been broken.
What is the Brady Rule?