| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Miller Test (Community Standards Test) | The test used to decide whether material is obscene |
| Free Exercise clause | The part of the constitution protects practice of religion |
| Nowhere | Where is privacy mentioned in the constitution |
| Strict scrutiny | stand of review in race/discrimmintion cases |
| Common Law | federal decisions by courts |
| Establishment clause | seperates church from state |
| reasonable expectation of privacy | the standard of privacy |
| midlevel scrutiny | standard test for gender dis. |
| Statuatory laws | laws made by congress |
| Lemon Test | Test for if money should be granted to schools |
| rational basis | not race or gender review. |
| Poligamy | banned by gov. |
| "fire" in a crowded building | time, place, manner restriction |
| Locker | not protected privacy |
| Judiical review | court overturns something because unconsituttional |
| prior restraint | something is censored before being published |
| Balancing test | When rights conflict what determines things |
| Email | not private at work |
| peference/goals | only form of affirmative action that is acceptable. |
| Family car doctrine | the parents pay money for any damage cause by their teen driver. |
| beyond reasonable doubt | standard of proof in a criminal case |
| Embezzlement | the fancy legal term when someone steals money from their employers |
| No fault divorce | form of divorce that replaced old restrictions |
| Irreconciable difference | most common reason for divorce |
| robbery | crime involving taking someones property using force of intim |
| Vandalism | intentionally ruining someones proerty |
| larceny | stealing someone elses property |
| Entrapment | what the gov. forces you to commit a crime. |
| Waiting period | requiremt for marriage in many states |
| felony bulgery | someone is an acomplice to a felony |
| Necessity | a crime had to be commited to stop a bigger crime from happening |
| Best interet of the chid | used to determine child custory |
| Alibi | where not inolved in crime and in difference place |
| Infancy | under 7...too young to commit crime |
| intoxication | drunk when committed crime and didn't not at he time know what they were doing |
| insantiy | insane suring the crime...MENTAL INSTITUTION |
| SELF DEFENSE | when it is acceptable to use deadly force |
| Abiltiy to pay | determine child support |
| lack of consent | one of the reasons a marriage mayy be abbuleed. |
| Computer crime | crims invovling comupter |
| 4th amendment | search and seizure |
| border search | exception to when police don't need a search warrant. AIRPORTS |
| forgery | signing someone elses naem |
| exclusionary rule | evidence ibtained illegaill;y can not be used against someone |
| Hot pursuit | police follow into a building...then find illegal activit |
| 3 strikes laws | thigns happen three time...life in prisons |
| search incident to a lawful arrest | when someone is arrest and no need search warant |
| tax evasion | crime of omission |
| retribution | the wicked shoudl be punished...eye for an eye |
| COnsent | peopel let into house polcie |
| plai sight | police can clwarly see illegal activitiy |
| criminally neg. homo | does not rewuire mans rea |
| rehabiliatation | fix behovior |
| profiling | used to find suspespt by looks nd behaviors |
| emergency exception | police hear crying adn screaming may enter house |
| deterrence | punish will deter from commiting same crime again. |
| duress | under stress or froced to commit crime |
| fruit form posionses tree | search wearrant stuff |
Combine with other sets
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