SOC 4680- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 71 pages long!)
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In the states we are tried in magistry courts. Intermediate appellate courts (court of appeals: courts of last resort (state supreme court, there are automatic appeals for death penalty cases (if your attorney forgets to file an appeal in. Judges: **brady material- material that exonerates or indicates defendant isn"t guilty, credibility of 1st witness is most important, brady vs. maryland, discovery- process though which prosecution shared all evidence to. Illegally collected: exclusionary rule- first articulated in weeks; aka a judicial creation; any evidence collected unlawfully may not be used against a defendant in court; applied to states in mapp vs. ohio, 3 exceptions to this: Judicial notice- an irrefutable statement of fact to the jury: 4 types, legislative, adjudicative facts, matters of law, political, all evidence must be, relevant, material, competent, on test, mamia case, west memphis 3 case, amendments, court cases. Used by colonists to ensure fairness to citizens.
