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Title: Supreme Court Cases

Description: events and rulings of cases

Total Flash Cards: 18

Created: 09/14/2005 11:30:59

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Oliver v. U.S.
Definition
open view, marihuana grown in field, no expectation of privacy outside curtilage
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Cal. v. Greenwood
Definition
garbage search legal
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Kyllo v. U.S.
Definition
use of thermal imaging camera is illegal
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Draper v. U.S.
Definition
anonous tips/ probable cause
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IL v. Gates
Definition
drugs from Florida, probable cause with totality of circumstances not two-prong test
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U.S.v. Watson
Definition
consent to search car is legal
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Cal. v. Hodari D.
Definition
seizer occured when officer placed hands on defendant not when chasing
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Payton v. New York
Definition
warrantless search of home
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Minn. v. Olson
Definition
warrantless search home of third party
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Wilson v. Arkansas
Definition
knock and announce
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Terry v. Ohio
Definition
allow Terry stops, under reasonable suspicion to search for weapons
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King v. Cogdon
Definition
old British case, woman killed daughter with axe while sleep walking
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Weems v. United States
Definition
Weems convicted of falsifying a public document and sentenced to 15 years at hard labor in chains, overruled crime didn't fit punishment
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Mapp v. Ohio
Definition
exclusionary rule applies to state courts
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Wolf v. Colorado
Definition
state courts must protect the rights of citizens against police abuses of search and seizure
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Ashcraft v. Tenn.
Definition
confessions by around-the-clock interrogations are inadmissible
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Brown v. Mississippi
Definition
illegal confessions by use of force whipping a black man (1936)
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Carroll v. U.S.
Definition
(1925) search of a car not like a house, probable cause can be justification with no warrant cars can move not like homes



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