Rights Before Trial

The exclusionary rule can best be described as which of the following?

• The police can continue to question a suspect even after they’ve chosen to remain silent if there is a danger to public safety

• Evidence obtained without a search warrant is subject to being excluded from use at a trial to convict someone

• A police officer is required to inform a suspect of their Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights after they’ve been arrested

• A suspect has the right to request that a court provides them a lawyer even if they cannot

Which of the following scenarios would most likely be considered a violation of the Fifth Amendment?

• A person is tried twice for the same crime

• A suspect’s computer history is searched before a warrant is issued

• A person is arrested for protesting a Supreme Court decision

• A suspect is held in prison for ten years without a trial

The public trial is when the court room can be public to everyone. The speedy trial is when the defendant is tried for the alleged crimes within a reasonable time after being arrested

• 6th Amendment
• 5th Amendment
• 4th Amendment
• 2nd Amendment

The government can't search through your house or belongings unless they have a probable cause or warrant.

• 4th Amendment
• 5th Amendment
• 6th Amendment
• 8th Amendment

You don't have to testify or be a witness against yourself

• 4th Amendment
• 5th Amendment
• 6th Amendment
• 8th Amendment

Found in multiple amendments, the Constitution has outlined a specific set of procedures that must be followed in order to ensure a fair trial.

• precedent decision
• due process
• search warrant
• integration

According to the 5th Amendment, the government has the power to take your property for common good/use, however, you must be paid appropriately.  This clause is known as...

• Eminent Domain
• Self-Incrimination
• Double Jeopardy
• Habeas Corpus

What must a police officer have in order to search a person's property or take his or her possessions?

• due process
• probable cause and a search warrant
• writ of habeas corpus 
• none of the above

Putting someone on trial for a crime of which they have already been found innocent (not guilty) is called...

• probable cause
• self-incrimination
• criminal law
• double jeopardy

Part of due process guaranteed through the Fifth Amendment requires police officers to remind accused persons of their rights before arresting them. This reading of rights is called the...

• Miranda warning
• double jeopardy
• writ of certariori
• precedent