on weapon charges. The Riley v. California case was argued April 29‚ 2014 and decided on June 25‚ 2014.The main issue in this case was how the police officer searched his phone without a warrant then arrested him and if this action violated the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment clearly states that “The right of the people to be secure in their persons‚ houses‚ papers‚ and effects‚ against unreasonable searches and seizures…”.
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Schmerber v. California Case Brief Schmerber v. California 384 U.S. 757 (1966) FACTS: Armando Schmerber‚ the petitioner‚ had been arrested for drunk driving while receiving treatment for injuries in a hospital. During his treatment‚ a police officer smelled liquor on petitioner’s breath and noticed other symptoms of drunkenness so the officer ordered a doctor to take a blood sample which indicated that Schmerber had been drunk while driving. The blood test was introduced as
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The Supreme Court of the United States serves as the judicial body that interprets the implementation of the U.S. Constitution. Over the years‚ this Court as a whole has made some landmark decisions‚ forever altering the direction of our country. However‚ the Court is a sum of its parts‚ in which each individual justice has a say in the outcome of each case. Today‚ the Court is made up of one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. While there is no set standard on how the justices are to cast
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that have been able to reach the top court‚ the Supreme Court. Even then not all of the cases that reached Supreme Court gained the status of being a landmark Supreme Court case. Each of these cases that gained the status of a landmark Supreme Court case was by embedding some type of societal impact that lasts to the United States such as‚ Miranda v. Arizona. In order for a case to be defined as a landmark Supreme Court case it must first reach the supreme court of the United States‚ then the case
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Kansas V. Cheever Karina Garcia CJ 400 Constitutional Law Judge Sue Kurita May 8‚ 2014 Abstract In today’s society‚ the death penalty is still a very controversial topic on its own however‚ add the possibility of a Fifth Amendment violation makes it worse. For the people in the State of Kansas‚ it something for significant since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1994. The case of Kansas V. Cheever involves just that‚ the sentence of death for a man accused of killing a Kansas Sherriff
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The Tarasoff case is the case that “established a clinician’s duty to warn” (Mottarella‚ n.d.). Prosenjit Poddar‚ a student at University of California Berkeley (UCAL) was a patient of Dr. Lawrence Moore‚ a psychologist a hospital affiliated with UCAL. Poddar was seeking treatment for an emotional breakdown after being romantically rejected by Tatiana Tarasoff. In the course of therapy Poddar related to Dr. Moore his intent to kill Tarasoff that fall. Dr. Moore conferred with his superiors at
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Upper Tier Rights There are many cases in the history of constitutional law that involve the wording of the United States Constitution. One case that deals with many parts of the constitution is Miranda v Arizona. This was a case that the Supreme Court voted on in 1966. This is a case of upper tier rights‚ because it deals with the constitutional rights. It mostly deals with the fourteenth amendment which is a right to due process and the sixth amendment which is a right to counsel. A suspect
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Assignment 2 Barber v. Superior Court deals with two Doctors who removed life support from a man who was in a vegetative state with very little chance of surviving the ordeal. The main question is if the two petitioners legally speaking actually killed the man when they took off his life support. By definition‚ murdering is “the unlawful killing of a human being‚ with malice aforethought.” California Law states that Euthanasia is “neither justifiable nor excusable in California.” Euthanasia by definition
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Constitution was ratified. It originally gave the majority of the power to the states. As time went on‚ the national government gained more and more power. It used the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution to validate its acts‚ and the Supreme Court made decisions that strengthened the national government creating a more unified United States. Finally‚ the recent course of federalism has been to give powers back to the states. Federalism was needed in the Constitution to make sure that the
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throughout most of the West Coast being relocated to interment camps. When Fred Korematsu refused to be relocated the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the military despite suspicions of racism. There were Supreme Court Justices who disagreed with the decision but the ruling still passed. The Supreme Court found Korematsu guilty of violating Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34. Despite clear undertones of racial discrimination‚ Fred Korematsu was still violating a direct order from the President of the United
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