Rights of the Accused Quiz

_________________ are limitations placed on the government. Basically, they are things the government can't do that might interfere with your personal freedom.

• Civil Liberties

• Economic Liberties

• Civil Rights

• Procedural Rights

The point of due process is to ensure

• people are treated fairly in the justice system

• the defendant has an advantage against the larger and more powerful government

• the state has the power to convict criminals

• accused criminals are convicted of lesser crimes

The first clause of the 5th Amendment basically says that if you are charged with a crime, you are entitled to _____ that must look at the evidence and decide that there is enough to bring you to trial.

• be a witness against yourself

• a grand jury

• double jeopardy

• “just compensation”

The second protection the 5th Amendment gives us is against ___, where the state tries you for a crime, loses its case, and then decides to try you again for the exact same crime.

• be a witness against yourself

• a grand jury

• double jeopardy

• “just compensation”

The third clause in the 5th Amendment is that you can’t be compelled to...

• be a witness against yourself

• a grand jury

• double jeopardy

• “just compensation”

According to the 6th amendment you have the right to a (check all that apply)

• a trial in the location where the crime was committed

• you get to know the charges against you in advance

• right to an attorney to represent you in court

• secret trial, for your privacy

• you can use the power of the court to call witnesses in your favor

One of the protections in our justice system; this means not biased or unfairly prejudiced; this means that none of the members of the jury can have an unfair stigma about the person on trial

• Impartial jury

• Prosecution

• Defendant

• Charge

What does it mean that a person has a right to a speedy trial?

• Trials have to have at least one person with the nickname of "Speedy."

• That trials can't last for more than a day

• That all trials will happen within two weeks of the arrest

• That the government can't delay a trial without a good reason

Procedural due process refers to the

• methods by which a law is enforced

• appropriate procedures for writing laws

• limitations on what a government may do

• idea that unreasonable laws are unconstitutional

What right helps to insure that government officials follow the law and don't hold trials in secret?

• Eminent domain

• Right to a speedy trial

• Double Jeopardy

• Right to an impartial jury

• Right to a public trial