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1) The standard that illegally seized evidence can not be used at trial is known as the
A) due process clause.
B) procedural rights rule.
C) exclusionary rule.
D) Mapp rule.
E) search and seizure rule.

2) The case Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) was about
A) self-incrimination.
B) right to counsel.
C) search and seizure.
D) trial by jury.
E) libel.

3) The Supreme Court ruled that ʺlawyers in criminal cases are necessities, not luxuriesʺ in the
case
A) Weeks v. U.S.
B) Mapp v. Ohio.
C) Gregg v. Georgia.
D) Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Unia ~ o Do Vegetal
E) Gideon v. Wainwright

4) The right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury is guaranteed by the ________
Amendment.

A) Third B) Sixth C) Seventh D) Eighth E) Tenth


5) Of the following, who is ineligible for the death penalty in the United States?
A) those from abusive families
B) alcoholics
C) those under the age of eighteen
D) the disabled
E) the mentally competent

6) Who is least likely to be eligible to serve on a jury?
A) the poor
B) women
C) African Americans
D) Hispanics
E) those who have prejudiced a case

7) The Eighth Amendment prohibits
A) unreasonable searches and seizures.
B) excessive bail and excessive fines.
C) trial by a jury of your peers.
D) capital punishment.
E) multiple appeals in felony cases.

8) In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that mentally retarded convicts could not be executed for
capital murder because doing so would violate the
A) Declaration of the Rights of Man.
B) prohibition against prior restraint.
C) prohibition against double jeopardy.
D) due process clause.
E) ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

9) Why did Governor George Ryan declare a moratorium on all executions in Illinois in 2000?
A) A university class project had resulted in the release of several men from death row.
B) Governor Ryan had an epiphany while his mother was dying from lung cancer.
C) Governor Ryan believed that Biblical teachings prohibited state-sponsored killings.
D) Governor Ryan had recently joined the Religious Society of Friends, which practices
pacifism.
E) DNA from twenty recently executed Illinois men proved their innocence beyond a
reasonable doubt.

10) Where is the right to privacy enumerated in the Constitution?
A) in the Second Amendment
B) in the Third Amendment
C) in Article I, section 8
D) in the Preamble
E) The right to privacy is not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.