the american legal system
escobedo vs illinois
when police focus on a suspect he/she is entitled to a lawyer
prejudicial pretrial publicity remedies apply in criminal cases
Dr. Sam Sheppard case and F. Lee Bailey, his attorney who later helps Johnny Cochran defend O.J.Simpson
miranda rights
You have a right to remain silent. If you give up your right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in court. You have a right to have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you)
hazelwood school district vs kuhlmeier
actions are disruptive
bartkus vs illinois
appeals, mistrial
morse vs frederick
bong hits for jesus
ban on double jeopardy
cannot be tried twice for the same crime
ashe vs swenson
collateral estoppel applies to criminal cases
brown vs mississippi
confession resulting from torture violates 14th amendment (for a confession to be admissible it must be voluntary and reliable)
masson
director of the freud institute
texas vs johnson
even unpopular & stupid people are protected- burning an american flag as a protest is not a crime
sigmund freud
founder of modern psychiatry
communications decency act 1996
immunity for websites that do not edit (most social media)
defamation
libel & slander (communicating a false statement of fact that causes injury)
butts vs curtis publishing
phone calls are dangerous if you are plotting a crime ule applies to public persons (how Coach Bear Bryant and Coach Wally Butts fixed the outcome of the Alabama v. Georgia football game)
new york times vs sullivan
police chief bull connor - public officials must prove actual malice to win a defamation case (actual malice is knowledge the statement was wrong when you made it or total failure to investigate)
elrod vs burns
politics should not cost you your job- a government official cannot fire a government employee because of his/her political beliefs
sullivan
rule applies to public events
tinker vs des moines school district
student protests- students enjoy 1st amendment protections
masson vs new yorker magazine
sullivan rule applies to false quotations
NAACP vs alabama
the ku klux klan loses power due to Supreme Court ruling- Alabama state law chills exercise of freedom of speech by requiring every NAACP member to register their home address as a public record
time life vs hill
two escaped felons take a family hostage
remedies
voir dire, change of venue, gag order, sequestration, continuance
miranda vs arizona
when police want to question a suspect who is in custody they must first advise defendant of his rights
douglas forbes
wrongly convicted & coram nobis did not apply writ of coram nobis from Roman law and common law (new trial if defendant has important, new evidence)
