Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9781498721202
Content:
Introduction to the U.S. Constitution -- Introduction -- Original Constitution -- Bill of Rights -- Supreme Law of the Land -- Overview of the Judiciary -- Members of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014 -- Capstone Case: -- United States volume Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995) -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- The Concept of Due Process -- Introduction -- Defining Due Process -- Early History of Due Process Clause -- States and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Police Power -- Vagueness -- Equal Protection of the Law -- Capstone Case: -- Medina volume California, 505 U.S. 437 (1992) -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Fourth Amendment -- History -- Overview of the Amendment -- What Constitutes a Search? -- Probable Cause -- Warrants -- ARRESTS -- Capstone Case: -- Atwater volume City of Lago Vista, 149 L. Ed. 2d 549 (2001) -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Fourth Amendment Issues -- Introduction -- Searches without Warrants -- No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Situations -- Arrests without Warrants -- Terry Stops -- Traffic Stops -- Scope of the Search -- Wiretaps -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Exclusionary Rule -- Introduction -- Exceptions to the Rule -- Noncriminal Trial Proceedings -- Situations Where the Rule Has Not Been Applied -- Exclusionary Rule and the Fifth Amendment -- Exclusionary Rule and the Sixth Amendment -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Fifth Amendment Issues -- Introduction -- Grand Jury -- Double Jeopardy -- Self-Incrimination -- Miranda Warning -- Exceptions to the Rule -- Failure to Advise Defendant of Other Suspected Crimes -- Fruit of the Poisonous Tree -- Involuntary Confessions -- Commenting on Defendant’s Silence -- Recent Court Decision -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Sixth Amendment Issues -- Introduction -- Speedy Trial -- Public Trial -- Impartial Jury -- Judicial District in Which the Crime Was Committed -- Informed of the Nature and Cause of the Accusation -- Right to Confront Witnesses -- Compulsory Process for Obtaining Witnesses -- Assistance of Counsel -- Guilty Pleas -- Capstone Case: -- United States volume Gonzalez-Lopez, 548 U.S. 140 (2006) -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- The Eighth Amendment -- Introduction -- Death Penalty as Cruel and Unusual -- Noncapital Punishments -- Jail and Prison Conditions as Cruel and Unusual -- Court Sentences as Cruel and Unusual -- Bail -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- The First Amendment -- Introduction -- Religious Issues -- Freedom of the Press -- Right to Assemble and Free Speech -- Petitions to the Government -- Right of Privacy -- Obscenity -- Students and the First Amendment -- Prisoners and the First Amendment -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Civil Liability -- Introduction -- Federal Civil Rights -- Liability of Federal Agents under 42 U.S.C.S. § 1983 -- Officer’s Duty to Arrest -- Liability for Failure to Train Police Officers -- Immunity -- Prosecutors -- Capstone Case: -- Wilson volume Layne, 526 U.S. 603, 628 (1999) -- Recent Court Decisions -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- Writ of Habeas Corpus -- Introduction -- Boumediene volume Bush Case -- Procedure for Obtaining Writ -- Summary -- Questions in Review -- References -- Glossary -- Appendix A: U.S. Constitution -- Appendix B: Search warrants -- Appendix C: August 2005 Term – at Alexandria.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781498721196
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781498721196
Language:
English
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