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Ch. 5 Part II
2nd Amendment, Right to Privacy, Rights of Criminal Defendants
Question | Answer |
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Amendment concerning search and seizure | 4th Amendment |
Amendment concerning the right to bear arms | 2nd Amendment |
Amendment concerning cruel and unusual punishment | 8th Amendment |
a landmark Supreme Court ruling that held the 5th Amendment requires that individuals arrested for a crime must be advised of their right to remain silent and to have counsel present | Miranda v. Arizona (1966) |
judicially created rule that prohibits police from using illegally seized evidence at trial | exclusionary rule |
Amendment that guarantees to the accused, "the Assistance of Counsel in his defense" | 6th Amendment |
the Supreme Court found that a woman's rights to an abortion was protected by the right to privacy that could be implied from specific guarantees found in the Bill of Rights applied to the states through the 14th Amendment. | Roe v. Wade (1973) |
Supreme Court case that found that the Second Amendment does not protect the possession of a sawed off shotgun; last time the Supreme Court directly addressed the 2nd Amendment | US v Miller (1939) |
law that imposed a federal mandatory 5 day waiting period on the purchase of handguns; parts concerning bans on assault weapons and background checks have been nullified | Brady Bill |
Which amendments concern with the rights of criminal defendants? | 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments |
Supreme Court case where exclusionary rule comes from;"fruits of a poisonous tree" | Weeks v. US (1914) |
"all evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Constitution is inadmissible in a state court" | Mapp v. Ohio (1961) |
Supreme Court case that decided that attorney can be provided to the defendant if they cannot afford one | Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) |
w/ help from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the SC found that the death penalty is often abused | Furman v. Georgia (1972) |
Georgia's rewritten death penalty statute after Furman was found to be unconstitutional | Gregg v. Georgia (1976) |
Supreme Court ruled that a state's ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy; increased right to privacy | Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) |
upheld state laws promoting anti-abortion | Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989) |
most important abortion case since Roe; limited Roe by abolishing its trimester approach and substituting the undue burden standard | Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) |
the Court held that the Texas statute making it a crime for two persons of the same sex to engage in certain intimate sexual conduct violates the Due Process Clause | Lawrence v. Texas (2003) |
*Know 5th and 14th Amendments!* | N/A |