WorksheetsSection #5 Short Review
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
After the landmark case of __________________different types of cases the Supreme Court has had the power to strike down any law or any government action that violates constitutional principles.
Marbury v. Madison 1803
Schenck v. United States 1919
Johnson v. Avery (1969)
Wolff v. McDonnell 1974
This test, established by the Supreme Court in ____________________ prohibits inherently dangerous speech, such as falsely shouting “fire!” in a crowded theater.
Schenck v. United States 1919
Marbury v. Madison 1803
Johnson v. Avery (1969)
Wolff v. McDonnell 1974
The right to petition the courts in these ways is referred to as the right of access to the courts. The court discusses this right at length in the case of
Johnson v. Avery (1969)
Marbury v. Madison 1803
Schenck v. United States 1919
Wolff v. McDonnell 1974
In the landmark case of ________________ the Supreme Court defined the contours of prisoner rights during prison disciplinary proceedings.
Wolff v. McDonnell 1974
Johnson v. Avery (1969)
Schenck v. United States 1919
Marbury v. Madison 1803
The right to privacy is closely related to the law of search and seizure. In the landmark case of ______________ the Court determined that inmates do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their living quarters
Hudson v. Palmer 1984
Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
The Fifth Amendment has an enormous impact on the practice of police interrogations. Torture, both physical and psychological, was shockingly common. Threats were often used. The problem with confessions made under such duress is those innocent persons may well confess to crimes simply to make the pain stop. The first major case prohibiting this sort of conduct was
Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
Hudson v. Palmer 1984
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
The Court has linked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to the right to counsel. In the case of ________________ the Court ruled that when police questioning moves from merely investigatory to accusatory in nature, the right to counsel becomes active.
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
Hudson v. Palmer 1984
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Ultimately, the court was not satisfied with the scope of the protections set forth in Escobedo. Two years later, the court established specific interrogation procedures to ensure the Fifth Amendment rights of criminal defendants in
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
Hudson v. Palmer 1984
Brown v. Mississippi (1936)
In _____the court created the
Inevitable discovery
Nix v. Williams (1984),
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
New York v. Quarles (1984)
Estelle v. Gamble (1976)
In _______, the court ruled that “Deliberate indifference by prison personnel to a prisoner’s serious illness or injury constitutes cruel and unusual punishment contravening the Eighth Amendment
Estelle v. Gamble (1976)
Nix v Williams (1984)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
New York v. Quarles (1984)
the Court created a public safety exception
New York v. Quarles (1984)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Nix v. Williams (1984),
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
The Court decided that the exclusionary rule was fundamental to a fair trial and was thus applicable to the state via the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause.
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Nix v. Williams (1984),
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Terry v Arizona (1968)
Perhaps the most important laws that concern police conduct are the __________________Amendments of the United States Constitution.
4th and 5th
4th and 6th
5th and 6th
6th and 8th
The right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment as guaranteed by the _____________Amendment to the United States Constitution. The amendment only applies to criminal punishments; it has no bearing on civil cases
8th
6th
5th
4th
