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Mind Map by maeganbrady410, updated more than 1 year ago
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Our Legal System
- Criminal Law
- Misdemeanors
- Less serious crimes that are punishable with less
than one year in prison.
- Examples
- Larceny
- Larceny
- Less serious crimes that are punishable with less
than one year in prison.
- Felonies
- Examples
- Homicide
- Robbery
- Burglary
- Homicide
- Examples
- Steps in criminal case
- 2. Arrest
- 4. Preliminary Hearing
- 5. Arraignment
- 6. Trial
- 7. Verdict
- 8. Sentencing
- 8. Sentencing
- 7. Verdict
- 6. Trial
- 5. Arraignment
- 3. booking
- 4. Preliminary Hearing
- 1. Police investigation.
- 2. Arrest
- Mapp vs. Ohio
- Criminal case which violated the 4th
amendment.
- Police walked into Mapp's home without a search
warrant.
- Search Warrant
- Search Warrant
- Police walked into Mapp's home without a search
warrant.
- Criminal case which violated the 4th
amendment.
- Those who commit crimes.
- NC state court system
- North Carolina's trial-level courts are the District Courts and Superior Court.
- North Carolina's trial-level courts are the District Courts and Superior Court.
- Misdemeanors
- Civil Law
- Cases that involve a plaintiff suing another person for money
- Plantiff- Person filing the lawsuit.
- Defendant- Person being sued.
- Plantiff- Person filing the lawsuit.
- Tort- Fancy name for civil law.
- Cases that involve a plaintiff suing another person for money
- Constitutional Law
- Cases over constitutional issues.
- Gideon vs. Wainwright
- Established right to a lawyer for everyone.
- 6th Amendment.
- Right to lawyer, trial by jury, & speedy, public trial.
- Right to lawyer, trial by jury, & speedy, public trial.
- 6th Amendment.
- Established right to a lawyer for everyone.
- Miranda vs. Arizona.
- Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects must be
informed to their constitutional right to an attorney
- Miranda rights/ exclusionary rule
- Miranda rights/ exclusionary rule
- Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects must be
informed to their constitutional right to an attorney
- Gideon vs. Wainwright
- US federal Court System
- Court established by federal government.
- Court established by federal government.
- Cases over constitutional issues.
- Administrative Law
- Gregg vs. Georgia
- Gregg challenged his death sentence for
murder.
- Gregg stated that his 8th and 14th amendment
rights were violated.
- Gregg stated that his 8th and 14th amendment
rights were violated.
- Capital punishment
- Furman vs. Georgia (1972)
- Suspended use of death penalty. Supreme Court ruled the way the
death penalty was being used was "Arbitrarily", freakish". The ban on
the death penalty would last 4 years.
- Suspended use of death penalty. Supreme Court ruled the way the
death penalty was being used was "Arbitrarily", freakish". The ban on
the death penalty would last 4 years.
- Gregg challenged his death sentence for
murder.
- Law that regulates the procedures of
government agencies.
- Gregg vs. Georgia
- Definitions (10)
- 1. Precedent: Court ruling in an earlier case.
- 2. Remand:Send a case back to a lower court.
- 3. Docket: Court calendar.
- 4. Commute:Reduce a criminal's sentence.
- 5. Acquittal: Vote of not guilty.
- 6. Hung jury: Jury that cannot agree on a verdict.
- 7. Jurisprudence: Study of law.
- 8. Dissenting opinion: Goes against Majority opinion.
- 9. Concurring opinion: votes with majority, but for different reasons.
- 10. Libel:Criminal act of printing lies about others.
- 10. Libel:Criminal act of printing lies about others.
- 9. Concurring opinion: votes with majority, but for different reasons.
- 8. Dissenting opinion: Goes against Majority opinion.
- 7. Jurisprudence: Study of law.
- 6. Hung jury: Jury that cannot agree on a verdict.
- 5. Acquittal: Vote of not guilty.
- 4. Commute:Reduce a criminal's sentence.
- 3. Docket: Court calendar.
- 2. Remand:Send a case back to a lower court.
- 1. Precedent: Court ruling in an earlier case.
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