VIIII.

Rights of the Accused:

a. 4th:
i. Probable Cause:

Warrant:
Search Warrant:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Mapp v. Ohio (1960):

ii. Exclusionary Rule:

Bars any evidence gathered illegally from being presented in Court.

iii. Good Faith:

. Inculpatory: evidence is evidence that shows, or tends to show, a

person's involvement in an act, or evidence that can
establish guilt.

. Exculpatory: anything that clears someone or something of guilt or

blame

vi. Castle Doctrine(Stand your Ground):

b. 5th:
Grand Jury (only for _______________)

Double Jeopardy:
A VERDICT must be issued in order for double jeopardy to
apply.
Acquitted:

Hung Jury:

Gamble v. U.S. (2019)

Self-Incrimination: The law may not force you to implicate you in a crime

a. Miranda v. Arizona (1966):

Miranda Warning
 c. 6th:

i. Speedy Trial:
Trial: would determine the defendant’s guilt or innocence with a verdict
of guilty or innocent.
Sentencing: The length of which an individual will serve in jail for the
crime they have committed.
Aggravated Factors: any factor that makes the crime worse

Mitigating Factors: factor that might excuse the crime to

some extent, such as a reduced mental capacity.

ii. Public Trial:

iii. Right to an Attorney

Confront witnesses:

Gideon v. Wainwright:

1. Plea Bargaining: pleading guilty for a lesser sentence

(punishment)

d. 8th:
Cruel and Unusual Punishment:

Capital Punishment is the ____________________________:

a. Furman v. Georgia(1972): Moratorium on the death penalty

ii. Gregg v. Georgia (1976): Reinstated the death penalty

iii. Ford v. Wainwright (1986) whether the death penalty applied to the
“insane.”

iv. Atkins v. VA (2002) whether the death penalty applies to “mentally

retarded.”

v. Roper v. Simmons (2005) whether the death penalty applied to minors

vi. Miller v. Alabama (2012) life imprisonment without the possibility of parole
cannot be applicable to minors

vii. Kennedy v Louisiana ( 2008): Death cannot be applied for the rape or
death of a child if that is not what was intended.

viii. Graham v Florida (2010): no life for minors--nonhomicide

Excessive Bail:
23 states without the death penalty:
1846

1853

1887

DNA: Cost of Drugs: Hanging:

Compensation Cost for lethal injection per Firing Squad

Timothy Cole Act: prisoner:

Gas Chamber States Botched Executions Cost per day:

# Texas has executed to Women Executed: Currently on Death Row

date: US US
Since 1976:
Federal: TX TX

1st woman to be sentenced

to death by electric chair:

Michael Morton Went to jail for killing his wife and was in jail for 25 yrs before
the innocence project fought to have DNA tested and he was
found innocent.
Rodney Reed Currently on death row for killing his girlfriend at the time.
She was also dating a Bastrop county sheriff who was known
for domestic violence.
Humberto Leal Mexican national who was not allowed to talk to the Mexican
Garcia consulate before his death sentence. Texas violated the
Vienna Convention in not letting him talk to the Mexican
 Consulate.
Timothy Cole He was accused of committing a crime that he did not do. He
was later found innocent, but the process to release him from
“Timothy Cole Act” prison took too long and he died in prison while waiting to be
freed.

Todd Willingham Was accused of setting his house on fire that killed his 3
young daughters. Texas executed him. His family wanted to
clear his name so 10 years after he was executed he was
found innocent and given a posthumous pardon.

Carlos De Luna Texas executed the wrong Carlos.

Right to Privacy:

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965):

Roe v. Wade (1973):

Norma McCorvey

Hyde Amendment(1973):

Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1982)

Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016)

Right to Die: Assisted Suicide:

** Terry Schiavo: **Jack Kevorkian:

Washington v. Glucksberg:
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department
of Health (1990):

Gonzales v. Oregon:

1. 1997:
Marlise Munoz
2. 2008:
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Brittany Maynard