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Mind Map by Glorimar Cruz-Pa, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Glorimar Cruz-Pa
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Our Legal System
- Criminal Law
- Misdemeanors
- Examples
- Larceny (shoplifting)
- Larceny (shoplifting)
- Less serious crimes that are
punishable with less than 1
year in prison.
- Examples
- Felonies
- Examples
- Homicide aka murder.
- Robbery
- Burglary aka breaking & entering.
- Homicide aka murder.
- Examples
- Misdemeanors
- Civil Law
- Cases that involve a Plaintiff suing another person for damages & money.
- Plaintiff is the person filing the lawsuit
- Defendant is the person being sued.
- Plaintiff is the person filing the lawsuit
- Another name for Civil Law is Tort Law.
- Cases that involve a Plaintiff suing another person for damages & money.
- Constitutional Law
- Cases over Constitutional
Issues
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Established right to a lawyer for everyone.
- 6th Amendment
- Gurantees right to a lawyer. Trial by Jury, speedy, and public trial.
- Gurantees right to a lawyer. Trial by Jury, speedy, and public trial.
- Established right to a lawyer for everyone.
- Miranda v. Arizona
- An accused
person must be
notified of
his/her rights.
- An accused person must be read their
Miranda Rights.
- Exclusionary Rule: Prevents the
government from using most
evidence gathered in violation of
the United States Constitution
- An accused
person must be
notified of
his/her rights.
- Mapp v. Ohio
- Protection from illegal search.
- Search Warrant is a legal document a police
officer or other officials need to search a
place.
- Search Warrant is a legal document a police
officer or other officials need to search a
place.
- Protection from illegal search.
- Gregg v. Georgia
- Declared the death penalty
unconstitutional.
- Death penalty is the punishment of execution.
- Death penalty is the punishment of execution.
- Declared the death penalty
unconstitutional.
- Furman v. Georgia
- 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 penalt would
last 4 years.
- 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 penalt would
last 4 years.
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Steps in Criminal Case.
- Arrest
- Preliminary Hearing
- Arraignment
- Trial
- Verdict
- Sentencing
- Sentencing
- Defendant is a person on trial.
- Verdict
- Procedure in which accused is
formally charged and enters
plea.
- Trial
- Arraignment
- Police Investigation
- Booking: Recording of an arrested
person's information and reason for
arrest.
- Bail is money paid to the court by an
accused person to guarantee that
he/she will appear in court for trial.
- Preliminary Hearing
- Arrest
- Cases over Constitutional
Issues
- Administrative Law
- U.S. District Courts
- U.S. Courts of
Appeals
- U.S. Supreme Court
- The highest judicial court in the
country or state.
- The highest judicial court in the
country or state.
- Cases may be presented here
if they are not satisfied with
the original court decision.
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Hears cases that are general/low.
- U.S. Courts of
Appeals
- District Court
- Superior Court
- NC Court of Appeals
- NC Supreme Court
- NC Supreme Court
- NC Court of Appeals
- Superior Court
- U.S. District Courts
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