1. What is the Bill of Rights?: First 10 amendments to the Constitution
2. 1st Amendment: Freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly and petition
3. 3rd Amendment: Prohibits the forcible housing of a soldier in a time of peacewithout the
consent of the home owner
4. 4th Amendment: Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures
5. 5th Amendment: The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy, right to dueprocess
6. 6th Amendment: A speedy trial with an impartial jury, informed of the nature ofthe
accusation, right to counsel, right to confront the witness against them.
7. 8th Amendment: No cruel or unusual punishment or excessive bail and fines
8. 14th Amendment: A person in the United States is a citizen of both the countryand their
state. Their state may give more rights, but never fewer.
9. 3 Branches of government: LegislativeExecutive
Judicial
10. Procedural due process: Examines the procedure required by the governmentwhen it seeks
to deprive people of life, liberty or property.
The more important the person's interests that will be affected, the more processthe
government must afford.
11. Felony: Violation of the law for which the offender may be punished by death or
imprisonment for for than one year
12. Misdemeanor: Punishable for UP TO one year in JAIL
13. Elements of a crime: Actus reusMens rea
Corpus delecti
14. Conspiracy: Anyone who knowingly agrees with someone else to commit acrime
15. Solicitation: A person, through words or actions, offered, promised, or gave money,
services or anything of value (or forgave or promised to forgive a debt or obligation owed) to
another person to commit a crime.
16. Assault: The threat and fear of immediate battery and the ability to act on thatbattery
17. Aggravated assault: 1 year misdemeanor
An assault that inflicts serious or aggravated injury that requires immediate medicaltreatment
or that causes disfigurement, impairment of health or impairment of the body
18. What happens if you hold a store up with a toy gun?: Felony
Still counts as armed robbery because the suspect made the victim believe theweapon was real
19. CSAM: Child sexual abusive material
20. Difference between CSC 1 and 3: CSC 1 involves physical injury or mentalanguish. CSC
3 still includes penetration, but not physical injury
21. CSC 1st: -Penetration
-The victim is under 13
-Relationship (members of the same household, blood or affinity, exerting theirauthoritative
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