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Assignment:
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1. What is obscenity?
2. What are the three parts of the decision in Miller v. California (1973)?
3. Why is it so difficult to decide what is lewd or offensive?
4. How has technology and the Internet complicated the legal and constitutional issues around obscenity and expression?
5. What are the two facets to the freedom of assemble?
6. What was decided in Heller and McDonald?
7. Guiding Questions: what states and local laws tried to regulate the right to bear arms?
8. What was decided in District of Columbia v Heller?
9. What are some recognized limits on the Second Amendment?
10. In the Body of the Constitution, how did the Founding Fathers focus on the rights of people accused of crimes?
11. What do police need to arrest a suspect?
12. What does the Fourth Amendment forbid?
13. List 2 requirements for a warrant:
14. When can a search without a warrant legally occur? 5 examples
15. What happens to evidence if it is found during an illegal search?
16. What was the ruling in Mapp v Ohio?
17. Who has the burden of proof in a court case?
18. How does the Fifth Amendment protect a witness or defendant?
19. How does Miranda v Arizona protect the rights of the accused?
20. What are some of the exceptions the Supreme Court has made to the Miranda decision?
21. How does the Sixth Amendment protect the rights of the accused?
22. How did Gideon v Wainwright expand that right?
23. How has Gideon been expanded in subsequent cases?
24. What does the Eighth Amendment prohibit? What are the Court restrictions on the Eighth Amendment (non-death penalty?)
25. What are the restrictions on the death penalty
26. Where is the word privacy mentioned in the Bill of Rights? Where is privacy "hinted" at in the Bill of Rights?
27. What did the Supreme Court decide in Griswold v Connecticut?