Study Guide 4

Gideon v. Wainwright required the states to

furnish attorneys for poor defendants in felony cases.

The Supreme Court

has generally protected symbolic speech, though less substantially than it has protected verbal speech.

In Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the justices

reaffirmed the essential aspects of Roe v. Wade.

Spoken words that are known to be false and harmful to a person's reputation are an example of

slander

In deciding two 2014 cases involving the legality of searching a suspect's cell phone, the Supreme Court ruled that

the cell phone cannot be searched, unless police believe that doing so could prevent a serious imminent crime, such as a terrorist attack.

What was the main conclusion of the Supreme Court's 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller and its 2010 decision in McDonald v. Chicago?

Citizens are allowed to own guns for legitimate purposes, such as protecting the home.

Gideon v. Wainwright is to the Sixth Amendment as Mapp v. Ohio is to the

Fourth Amendment.

Which of the following countries comes closest to the United States in terms of the percentage of its citizens who are behind bars?

Russia

Which of the following is true of the appeal process?

The Constitution does not guarantee an appeal after conviction, but the federal government and all states permit at least one appeal.

According to Freedom House, which of the following countries has the highest degree of freedom?

United States

The inevitable discovery exception

allows the use of evidence that would have been discovered by other means or through other forms of evidence.

The term civil liberties refers to specific individual rights that

are constitutionally protected from infringement by government.

In a 2004 case involving the issue of whether a U.S. citizen accused of terrorist acts is entitled to constitutional protections, the Supreme Court held that such citizens

do have the right to a judicial hearing.

The exclusionary rule states that

evidence obtained illegally is inadmissible in court

Since the 1980s, the Supreme Court has addressed the exclusionary rule by

expanding its application to virtually all criminal cases both at the state and federal levels, determining that the rule was unconstitutional, in that it weakened the effectiveness of the police in maintaining an orderly society, expanding its application to federal cases only, expanding its application to state cases only.NONE OF THESE ANSWERS IS CORRECT.