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Boy involved in car-jacking.
Boy involved in car-jacking. He pleads his 5th ammendment rights were violated b/c he confessed before Miranda rights. SC held that he was never in custody during interrogation so Miranda rights never applied. |
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Man interrogated and convicted of battery. He was interrogated and never took his right to an attorney.
-5'th amm. Violated b/c he should;ve had a lawyer present
-6'th amm. Violated for same reason
Court ruled: Yes 5'th and 6'th violated b/c he wasnt told he had a right to a lawyer |
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| Based off of ruling, now state criminal cases and non-capital crime cases, as well as fed. Non-capital crime cases, can have only 6 jury members. However all jurors have to be unanymous. In 12 jury members, majority is okay too, However, in capital federal case, must be 12 and all must convict. |
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Community in Long Island only wants nucleur families and married couples to live in it. Defense said that violated rights.
a. SC says this is ok because it doesnt violate someone's right to travel, privacy, freedom of association, equal protection clause of 14th amm. |
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| A community in Santa Barbara wants to only allow nucleur families to live there. This is unjust. According to CA law, it is uncon. So this cant be done here in comparison to Belletarre in Long Island. |
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Man involved in a kidnapping and a rape. Hes brought in for questioning on kid, and in process without lawyer, he confesses to murder.
-5th amm. Violated b/c he should've had a lawyer
-6'th amm. Violated bfor same
-Court ruling: He waived his right to an attorney, regardless of if lawyer was lied to. So no violation of 5th or 6th. |
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| Case where all black jury members are removed.l Burden right now is on Defense to proove that a lawyer is being racist. SC rules that the decision was fine b/c the Defense couldn't prove that the Prosecution was being racist. |
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All blacks removed from jury; overturned Swane v. Alabama. Shifted burden of
proof to prosecution so that they had to prove that the peremptory challenge wasnt used racially. |
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| African American woman runs for fed. Judge but election isnt covered in Voting Rights act; issue of whether or not her election should. |
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| Evidence obtained within violation of 4;th ammendment right against “search and seizure” cannot be admitted in court as evidence. |
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Students want to get signatures in CA shopping center but are told to leave. Issue of whether their rights were violated. SC said it was allowed because of CA law saying it was allowed.
-Issue here is new judicial federalism |
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| Pruneyard Shopping Center |
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| Decision that partially extended 6th ammendmant to cover misdemeanor cases in lower courts, (esp. right to counsel.) |
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| overturned Frye standard in deciding what is/isnt considered “expert evidence.” This case has decided what is/isn't expert evidence. |
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| Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmeceutical Co. |
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Defendant denied fair trial because of prejudicial pretrial publicity.
SC said even though freedom of press is a right, then if it gets in the way of a person's right to a free trial, than its not a trial. |
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4 shipmates stranded at sea. 2 of them consent to kill and eat the cabin boy in order to stay alive. They argued that they needed to do it in order to survive. Also, that the law is different at sea.
Queen's court ruled that it was wrong wither way. Perpetrators were sentenced to death. |
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Woman in Nazi Germany turns her hiusband in for dissenting Hitler. When war ends, its debated whether or not under law she killed her husband or not.
-Issue should be applied to the 3 schools of jurisprudence. |
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| Woman has coffee spilled on her. She sues for 2 billion. Shows the importance of tort reform. |
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| Liebell v. MacDonald's Corporation |
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| SC case involving a decision where a woman can abort until the baby is able to live outside of the womb even with aritificial aid. Until the fetus becomes "viable." The right is protected under the due process clause of the 14'th ammendment |
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| Man is appointed justice of the peace by John Adams, but his commision isnt given to him. He brought a case against John Adams saying this was unconstitutional. Court ruled that it was; set up format of "judicial review" where courts could review other branches of the gov's decisions. |
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| Man swallows a couple pills and his stomach is forced to be pumped. He thinks his 5'th ammendment rights were violated. SC ruled that they were; it was "conduct that shocked the conscience" as the ratio decedendi. |
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| Enforced Title IX so that in addition to universities reeping its benefits, it applied to private schools where students were on federally funded financial aid scholarships. |
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| Grove City College v. Bell |
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| Reversed original SC decision and made it so that capital punishment cant be imposed on minors. |
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| In this case, SC ruled that since how districs creat rep bodies is a political issue, the SC cant be subject to scrutiny over this issue |
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SC can change the way that voting districts are deliniated. This does not apply to PQD.
-Cases Involving Article IV of Constitution |
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