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Mind Map by victoria russ, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by victoria russ
over 8 years ago
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Our Legal System
- Criminal law
- felonies
- serious crimes punishable by more than 1 year in prison
- Examples
- Robbery
- Kidnapping
- Rape
- Burglary
- murder aka homicide
- Robbery
- serious crimes punishable by more than 1 year in prison
- misdemeanors
- less serious crimes
punishable by less than 1
year in prison
- less serious crimes
punishable by less than 1
year in prison
- District Courts
- Superior Court
- NC Court of Appeals
- NC Supreme Court
- 1 Chief Justice + 6
Associate Justices Total
=7
- They are elected & serve for 8 year terms
- They are elected & serve for 8 year terms
- 1 Chief Justice + 6
Associate Justices Total
=7
- NC Supreme Court
- NC Court of Appeals
- Superior Court
- Steps IN a Criminal Case
- A crime is committed
- Police investigate
- Arrest a suspect
- Booking. Suspect is fingerprinted & their mug shot taken
- Preliminary hearing !st time suspect before a judge
- arraignment. Suspect is asked to enter a plea guilty or not guilty
- Plea bargain-suspect pleads guilty to a
lesser charge in exchange for a lighter
sentence
- If the suspect pleads guilty then the judge sentences him/her.
- If the suspect pleads guilty then the judge sentences him/her.
- If the suspect pleads not guilty then a trial date is set
- trial
- defendant
- the accused
- the accused
- defense lawyer
- the lawyer for the defendant
- the lawyer for the defendant
- prosecutor
- works for the state; they represent the victim
- works for the state; they represent the victim
- Verdict
- defendant
- trial
- Plea bargain-suspect pleads guilty to a
lesser charge in exchange for a lighter
sentence
- arraignment. Suspect is asked to enter a plea guilty or not guilty
- Preliminary hearing !st time suspect before a judge
- Booking. Suspect is fingerprinted & their mug shot taken
- Arrest a suspect
- Police investigate
- A crime is committed
- felonies
- Civil Law
- the plaintiff files a lawsuit (a complaint) over damages & money
- the plaintiff files a lawsuit (a complaint) over damages & money
- Constitutional law
- cases involving the Constitution
- District Courts (lowest level of the Federal Court System
- Courts of Appeals
- US Supreme Court
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- guarantees EVERY defendant a lawyer
- guarantees EVERY defendant a lawyer
- Miranda v. Arizona
- Police must inform a suspect of his/her rights
- Police must inform a suspect of his/her rights
- Mapp v. Ohio
- exclusionary rule says evidence the police gather WITHOUT a search warrant or probable
cause is "inadmissible" in court and must be "excluded"
- exclusionary rule says evidence the police gather WITHOUT a search warrant or probable
cause is "inadmissible" in court and must be "excluded"
- Furman vs. Georgia (1972) suspended the use of the
death penalty. The 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 v. Georgia (1976) reinstated the death penalty; it divided a death
penalty case into phases 1) Trial 2) Sentencing The same jury that
found the defendant guilty was also responsible for assigning the
death penalty.
- Gregg v. Georgia (1976) reinstated the death penalty; it divided a death
penalty case into phases 1) Trial 2) Sentencing The same jury that
found the defendant guilty was also responsible for assigning the
death penalty.
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- US Supreme Court
- Courts of Appeals
- District Courts (lowest level of the Federal Court System
- cases involving the Constitution
- Administrative Law
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