Study with the several resources on Docsity
Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan
Prepare for your exams
Study with the several resources on Docsity
Earn points to download
Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan
Community
Ask the community for help and clear up your study doubts
Discover the best universities in your country according to Docsity users
Free resources
Download our free guides on studying techniques, anxiety management strategies, and thesis advice from Docsity tutors
Definitions and summaries of 44 landmark supreme court cases that have shaped criminal procedure in the united states. Topics include the right to counsel, search and seizure, self-incrimination, and more. These cases have had a significant impact on the interpretation and application of the fourth, fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendments.
Typology: Quizzes
1 / 9
held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to interrogation by a defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning and of the right against self- incrimination prior to questioning by police, and that the defendant not only understood these rights, but voluntarily waived them. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 (1942) denied counsel to indigent (poor) defendants when prosecuted by a state. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 (1968), held that the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks him or her without probable cause to arrest, if the police officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime and has a reasonable belief that the person "may be armed and presently dangerous." TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 (1969), held that police officers arresting a person in his or her home could not search the entire home without a search warrant, although they may search the area within immediate reach of the person.
(1884), case helped define rules regarding the use of grand juries in indictments. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 case concerning the incorporation of the Fifth Amendment protection against double jeopardy. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 (1973), Court upheld a murder conviction notwithstanding a challenge that the evidence upon which guilt was based was obtained in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 (1938), case, in which the petitioner, Johnson, had been convicted in federal court of feloniously possessing, uttering, and passing counterfeit money in a trial where he had not been represented by an attorney but instead by himself. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 (1964), a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against self- incrimination was applicable within state courts as well as federal courts.
held that police use of a trained detection dog to sniff for narcotics on the front porch of a private home is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and therefore, without consent, requires both probable cause and a search warrant. TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 held that "when officers make an arrest supported by probable cause to hold for a serious offense and bring the suspect to the station to be detained in custody, taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee's DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment." TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 (2000), TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 clarifies what constitutes "interrogation" for the purposes of Miranda warnings. TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 the prosecution had withheld from the criminal defendant certain evidence.
case appealed from the California Courts of Appeal after the California Supreme Court denied review. TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 Arizona v. Hicks, , held that the Fourth Amendment requires the police to have probable cause to seize items in plain view. TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 (2000),limited the power of law enforcement to conduct suspicionless searches, specifically, using drug-sniffing dogs at roadblocks. TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 (1979), In Scott, the Court decided whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments required Illinois to provide Scott with trial counsel. TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 a prosecutor has an affirmative duty to disclose evidence favorable to a defendant.
overturned a per se rule imposed by the Florida Supreme Court that held consensual searches of passengers on buses were always unreasonable. TERM 32
DEFINITION 32 (1975), held that criminal defendants have a constitutional right to refuse counsel and represent themselves in state criminal proceedings. TERM 33
DEFINITION 33 held that the Fourth Amendment permits a properly limited protective sweep in conjunction with an in-home arrest when the searching officer possesses a reasonable belief based on specific and articulable facts that the area to be swept harbors an individual posing a danger to those on the arrest scene. TERM 34
DEFINITION 34 (1968), was a significant United States Supreme Court decision which incorporated the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial and applied it to the states. TERM 35
DEFINITION 35 (1993), unanimously held that, when a police officer who is conducting a lawful patdown search for weapons feels something that plainly is contraband, the object may be seized even though it is not a weapon.
in the case of a person stopped for a misdemeanor traffic offense, once they are in custody, the protections of the Fifth Amendment apply to them pursuant to the decision in Miranda v. TERM 37
DEFINITION 37 held that a criminal suspect's assertion of his right to remain silent after a Miranda warning does not preclude the police from re-Mirandizing him and questioning him about a different crime. TERM 38
DEFINITION 38 ruled that the Fourth Amendment permits the police to use a roadblock to investigate a traffic incident. TERM 39
DEFINITION 39 (2009), \holding that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires law enforcement officers to demonstrate an actual and continuing threat to their safety posed by an arrestee, or a need to preserve evidence related to the crime of arrest from tampering by the arrestee, in order to justify a warrantless vehicular search incident to arrest conducted after the vehicle's recent occupants have been arrested and secured. TERM 40
DEFINITION 40 (2006)held that without a search warrant, police had no constitutional right to search a house where one resident consents to the search while another resident objects.