CJL-3510 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Three-Strikes Law, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Second Amendment To The United States Constitution
13 Dec 2016
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THINGS TO KNOW EXAM 1
• Cases You need to know don’t need to know dates
o Brown V. Mississippi
▪ Race related murder case of innocent men and corrupt police
▪ Confessions based on torture, coercive tactics
• Free and voluntary confessions as evidence
▪ Due process & 14th Amendment
▪ Overturned decision because it violated fundamental fairness
o U.S. V. Lopez
▪ 2nd Amendment – Gun Control
• Lopez carried a gun to school to give to another student to use in a
gang war
▪ Anonymous tip led to Lopez
• Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1990 violation
▪ Guilty: Sentenced to 6 months prison
• Supreme Court stepped in to reverse case
▪ Federal court v. state court
• What should be a federal crime?
o Terry V. Ohio
▪ Creation of a stop and frisk for law enforcement
▪ Based on reasonable articulate suspicion*
▪ Brief, limited, investigative detentions
▪ Legal to law enforcement personnel if they can articulate the reason for the
detention
▪ Landmark case, 4th amendment
o Ewing V. California
▪ One of two cases upholding a sentence imposed under California’s three
strikes law against a challenge that it constituted cruel and unusual
punishment in violation of the 8th amendment.
• Three Strikes Law- Statues enacted by state governments which
mandate courts to impose harsher sentences on those convicted of
an offense if they have been previously convicted of two prior
serious criminal offenses
• Amendments to know
o 14th
▪ No state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due
process of law
o 5th
▪ No person… shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due
process of law
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• Know the flow chart
o Know what generally goes on for each bubble
o Ex: Initial appearance
▪ Initial charges by the law enforcement, arraignment charge are by the
prosecutor
• (ere’s the way the court system flows:
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