CURRENT UNIT OF STUDY: "We Have Rights, Too!" (Bill of Rights & Other Rights)
STUDY GUIDE FOR QUIZ ON Tuesday, 12/22/2009 ("PROTECTIONS OF THE ACCUSED"):
The quiz is a combination of multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank. The items
below are all on the quiz, and nothing is missing from this list. Use your
notes from Monday, 12/21, to help you.
1. What is "due process of law"?
2. What is double jeopardy?
3. As part of your 5th amendment rights, you would be read the Miranda Warning
if you were arrested. What is this warning?
4. If you are accused of a serious crime and can't afford your own lawyer, how
does the 6th Amendment protect you?
5. What other rights do you have under the 6th amendment?
6. Amendment 7 allows for a trial by jury in what type of case?
7. What is bail?
8. Besides high bail, what other right does amendment 8 protect?
9. Which amendment protects people in the following situations?
-Being accused of a serious crime & having the right to a grand jury trial:
-Being protected from a prison guard who threatens to pour scalding hot
water on you if you don't confess to a crime:
-Taking your neighbor to court before a jury because of an argument over $250:
-Confronting a witness and asking him/her questions yourself: