Bill of Rights Scenarios

• no violation

• 4th amendment, unreasonable search

• 5th amendment, right to remain silent

• 4th amendment, freedom of expression

• no violation

• 1st amendment, freedom of religion

• 5th amendment, eminent domain

• 4th amendment, freedom of expression

• no, this is not protected speech (crime committed)

• yes, 1st amendment, freedom of speech

• 5th amendment, eminent domain

• 1st amendment, right to petition

• no, no violation

• yes, 8th amendment, unusual punishment

• yes, 6th amendment, right to counsel

• yes, 6th amendment, speedy trial

• no violation

• 5th amendment, right to due process, public trial

• 6th amendment, right to counsel

• 8th amendment, excessive bail

Carolina is arrested for shoplifting a bag of chips from a grocery store. At trial, she is found guilty. The judge decides that the right punishment is to cut off Carolina’s fingers so she will not be able to shoplift again.

• no violation

• 5th amendment, no double jeopardy

• 6th amendment, right to counsel

• 8th amendment, no cruel/unusual punishments

Gennie, an eighteen year old college student, is arrested for stealing a classmate’s designer sweater and purse, then selling them on eBay. When Gennie appears before the judge, she asks for a lawyer to help defend her. A judge tells Gennie no, because, she is smart enough to be in college, she knows enough to defend herself.

• no violation

• 5th amendment, no double jeopardy

• 6th amendment, right to counsel

• 8th amendment, no cruel/unusual punishments

Shelly is 15. One night she sneaks out of her house and stays out all night, only arriving home when her parents go out and find her at her friend's house. At home, her parents go through her room and find her phone, confiscating it for 2 months.

• no violation

• 5th amendment, right to remain silent

• 6th amendment, right to counsel

• 8th amendment, no cruel/unusual punishments

William arrived home one evening to find a member of the United States Navy sitting at the dining room table eating dinner with his parents. William quickly turned to his parents and said, “Why is there a military person in our home?” Williams’s parents said, “We were told we had to house this soldier.”

• no violation

• 5th amendment, right to remain silent

• 3rd amendment, no quartering troops

• 8th amendment, no cruel/unusual punishments

A person who enters a hotel restaurant and screams “There’s a bomb!" just to see the reaction of the people in the room. He is caught by the security guard and later arrested.

• violation, free speech

• no violation, speech not protected

• 5th amendment, double jeopardy

• 8th amendment, no cruel/unusual punishments