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Mind Map by celandreth, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by celandreth
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Our Legal System
- Criminal Law
- Misdemenors
- Less serious crimes that are punishable by less than one year in prison
- Examples
- Larceny
- Prostitution
- Vandalism
- Larceny
- Less serious crimes that are punishable by less than one year in prison
- Felonies
- More serious crimes that are punishable by up to life in prison
- Examples
- Homicide
- Robbery
- Burglary
- Homicide
- More serious crimes that are punishable by up to life in prison
- Misdemenors
- Civil Law
- Cases with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious
affairs.
- Examples
- Suing someone for damages
- Suing someone for suffering
- Suing someone for damages
- Tort Law
- A branch of civil law that is concerned with personal injury and civil wrongdoing.
- A branch of civil law that is concerned with personal injury and civil wrongdoing.
- Plaintiff
- People who file lawsuits
- People who file lawsuits
- Defendant
- People who are being sued.
- People who are being sued.
- Cases with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious
affairs.
- Constitutional Law
- Cases over Constitutional Issues
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Established right to a lawyer for everyone.
- Sixth Amendment
- Right to trial by jury
- Fair, speedy, public trial.
- Right to a lawyer.
- Right to trial by jury
- Sixth Amendment
- Established right to a lawyer for everyone.
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Cases over Constitutional Issues
- Administrative Law
- A law created by a government agency.
- Much of government and its public programs operate largely through various agencies on different levels:
federal, state, county, and city.
- Examples
- Blocking out certain words on the radio
- Restaurant ratings
- Blocking out certain words on the radio
- Much of government and its public programs operate largely through various agencies on different levels:
federal, state, county, and city.
- A law created by a government agency.
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