Assignment:
1. What is the importance of Dickerson v. United States?
2. What is the difference between common law, and civil law? Where are these types of laws practiced?
3. According to the court, what are some of the provisions of the cruel and unusual punishment clause?
4. What implications exist as a result of the varying state evidence laws?
5. What problems are associated with Alford and nolo contendere pleas?
6. What is the difference between exculpatory and enculpatory evidence?
7. Briefly list and describe the elements of the criminal justice process.
8. What is the difference between challenges for cause and peremptory challenges?
9. What factors determine the admissibility and relevancy of evidence?
10. What can be inferred from circumstantial evidence?
11. What inferences cannot be drawn from circumstantial evidence?
12. How do presumptions, inferences, and judicial notice function as substitutes for evidence? Are these constitutional? In what circumstances are these substitutes used?
13. Discuss the differences between the legal measures of perception?
14. What is the role of probable cause in searches and seizures?
15. To what extent does the right to privacy protect technological advances? In your opinion, to what extent should the right to privacy protect technological advances?
16. What is the significance of Brinegar v. United States (1949) regarding probable cause?