law padlet by Jyoshika Shivagari https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4 en-us 2025-10-14 14:44:46 UTC 2025-10-14 14:58:34 UTC hello@padlet.com United States Constitution jyoshikas1 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631862126 The fundamental or organic law of the U.S., framed in 1787 by the Constitutional Convention. It went into effect March 4, 1789.


]]> 2025-10-14 14:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631862126 5th Amendment (Amendment V) to the U.S. Constitution jyoshikas1 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631862921 A change adopted into the U.S. Constitution that protects against self-incrimination. 

]]> 2025-10-14 14:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631862921 Prosecutor valentinas50 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631863858 An attorney representing the government in a criminal case

]]> 2025-10-14 14:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631863858 6th Amendment (Amendment VI) to the U.S. Constitution jyoshikas1 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631864866 A change adopted into the U.S. Constitution that guarantees criminal defendants the right to a lawyer.

]]> 2025-10-14 14:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631864866 Theory of the case valentinas50 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631867825 The fundamental argument as to why your side should win. Your theory of the case is your sides version of "what really happened."

]]> 2025-10-14 14:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631867825 Taking or Pleading the 5th jyoshikas1 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631868288 Claiming the right to remain silent and not have this fact used against them. 

]]> 2025-10-14 14:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631868288 Provocation valentinas50 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631869511  Something which causes a reasonable person to lose control. If a spouse discovers their partner having sex with another and, in the heat of passion, the spouse intentionally kills their partner or the partner’s lover, the homicide will be held to be voluntary manslaughter rather than murder.

]]> 2025-10-14 14:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631869511 Heat of passion valentinas50 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631871087 A mitigating factor that may be raised by an accused criminal, claiming to have been in an uncontrollable rage, terror, or fury at the time of the alleged crime, especially one provoked by the victim.

]]> 2025-10-14 14:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631871087 Waive jyoshikas1 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631873936

  • Voluntarily giving up a right, including knowingly giving up the fifth amendment's privilege against self-incrimination.

    • ]]>     2025-10-14 14:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631873936     Mens rea jyoshikas1 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631877332 Law Latin for “guilty mind.” The mental element of a person's intention to commit a crime.

    ]]>     2025-10-14 14:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631877332     Actus reus jyoshikas1 https://padlet.com/jyoshikas1/14sdc800v5wja3d4/wish/3631880905 Law Latin for “guilty act.” The wrongful act that makes up the physical action of a crime.

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