Take Test: Exam I
What Amendment protects the defendant from being forced to take the witness stand and testify?
5th
How many amendments were proposed and sent to state for ratification?
A. 12
When is the arrestee's first encounter with the prosecution and courts?
A. Arraignment
What are the five ideal features of good criminal law?
A. Politically, Specifically, Regularity, Uniformity, and Penal Sanction
Which of the following served as a justice of the Supreme Court?
All of the above
Which amendment protects the rights of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, paper, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures?
B. 4th
Who is famous for the first code of laws?
B. Hammurabi
What are the two types of law?
B. Substantive and Procedural
Who served as Chief Justice in the 1960's?
C. Earl Warren
What placed limits on royal power and established the principle of the rule of law?
C. Magna Carta
What was another name for common law?
Case law
In which case did the Supreme Court limit the scope of searches indecent to an arrest?
Chimel v. California
What is a "safe home"?
D
How many laws were in the code of Hammurabi?
D. 285
What are the two coexisting factors that trigger the reading of the Miranda rights?
D. A and C
Which of the following refers to the scope of criminal law?
D. Specifically
In 2015, the court held that the police were entitled to turn routine traffic stops into drug searches using trained dogs.
False
Most arrest are made without a warrant.
False
Regularity is the principle that violators will be punished, or at least threated with punishment, by the state.
False
A "knock- and- announce rule" refers to the requirement that the police knock on the door and announce their identity.
True
A tort, is a violation of the civil law and is considered a private matter between individuals.
True
Expert witnesses may give testimony that includes opinions that are based on specialized knowledge in a particular field.
True
The first known written laws were found on clay tablets among the ruins of Ur.
True
The police may request that a suspect appear voluntarily in a lineup or volunteer to give a hair sample.
True
The Exclusionary Rule was created by the Supreme Court in the 1914 in the case of Weeks v. United States.
false
