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    My Supreme Court case is Miranda V. Arizona. This case represents the consolidation of four cases‚ in each of the cases which the defendant all confessed guilt after being questing without being told their Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights during an interrogation. This case was happening on March 13‚ 1963‚ Ernesto Miranda was arrested in his house and brought to the police station where he was questioned by police officers in connection with a kidnapping and rape case. After two hours of interrogation

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    Korematsu V. United States was a court case during the time of World War II. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ people of Japanese descent were considered threats. As a result‚ Franklin Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066 on February 19‚ 1942. This Order demanded that each and every person of Japanese descent be moved to internment camps‚ regardless of citizenship. Fred Korematsu‚ a Japanese American citizen‚ refused to leave his home to go to the internment camp. Therefore‚ he was convicted

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    transactions of information ("Findlaw’s United States Supreme Court Case And Opinions."). The FBI agents then proceeded to attach an eavesdropping device to the outside of the phone booth to record his conversations. With all the recoding that the FBI could get‚ they charged Katz with an eight - count indictment for the illegal transmission of wagering information to several states and he was convicted of those charges ("Findlaw’s United States Supreme Court Case And Opinions."). Katz filed an appeal

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    Brown‚ challenged Kansas’s school segregation laws in the Supreme Court. Linda Brown’s case in the Supreme Court was Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka.   Furthermore‚ Linda Brown is important to education because this case was a major civil rights victory because it was ruled racial segregation in public educational facilities are unconstitutional. This event brought an end to federal tolerance of racial segregation. In 1896‚ the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy Vs. Ferguson believed "separate but

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    Not a lot of people today are racist because of the civil rights movement.The civil rights movement is for the people to be good and they made more laws to make people to be even better.Three Supreme Court cases influenced the civil rights movement by making people to lessen African American:Shelley v. Kraemer‚Plessy v. Ferguson‚and Brown v. Board of Education. The cause Plessy vs. Ferguson made a law requiring restaurants‚ hotels‚and hospitals to serve African Americans.States began to require

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    destroying over thirty thousand documents before being subpoenaed by the SEC‚ predictably hindering the investigation. During May of 2002‚ Arthur Andersen LLP was finally indicted on charges of obstruction of justice by the Southern Texas District Court‚ served by Michael Chertoff. The jury believed that Arthur Andersen and its employees were in violation of 18 US Code § 1512‚ a public law which covers “tampering with a witness‚ victim‚ or an informant”5‚ due to the mass destruction of documents in

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    sabotage our defenses. (2 points) Score 3. The majority of the court believed that compulsory exclusion of large groups of citizens from their homes was okay in what situation? Answer: When our shores are in danger‚ or threatened by hostile forces we must do what is necessary to protect them. (2 points) Score 4. What did the dissenting justices think about the power of military authorities? Answer: The Supreme Court (2 points) Score 5. The dissenting opinion raises the fact

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    C Supreme Court Case Bobby Blankenship CJA/354 July 15th‚ 2013 P.M. Pollock Supreme Court Case Have you ever wondered if there is such a thing as to serious a judgment on a criminal case? In this paper I am bringing to light the case of The People VS. Rodrigo Caballero. In this case Caballero shot at a rival gang‚ in which he injured one individual. While being charged with three counts of willful‚ deliberate and premeditated attempted murder he was given a sentence of 110 years to life

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    have to answer but he was wrong. The supreme court held that the exclusionary rule was only applicable in criminal courts and was not meant to be seen as a right but as a way to reduce unreasonable searches and seizures conducted by police ("Oyez: US v. Calandra‚" n.d.). Stone v. Powell (1976) was convicted of murder in the state of California. Powell claimed that the search against him was unlawful so the gun found on him should have been inadmissible in court. He tried to file a writ of habeas corpus

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    Before making the final decision the court considered the following factors‚ length of delay‚ prejudiced to the accused‚ explanation for the delay‚ and Waiver of Appellants. The Supreme Court then concluded that the delay of 2 years after the appellant’s preliminary trial was unreasonable. The Crown did not justify the institutional delay and did not prove that the

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