https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/hqgryrdskl03 en-us 2019-04-29 15:01:49 UTC 2023-03-03 18:47:28 UTC hello@padlet.com annalise_goulding https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/hqgryrdskl03/wish/355049335 -The criminal justice process includes everything that happens to a person who commits a crime, from arrest through prosecution and conviction to release from prison. There are rights that people retain at different stages in the criminal justice process
-The police need evidence to investigate and prosecute crimes, but getting that evidence often requires searching people or their homes, cars, offices, or electronic records
-In situations where the police officer’s safety is at risk, for example, the officer can search without a warrant. Police may stop and frisk someone who is behaving suspiciously to check for weapons in order to protect themselves and bystanders
-If a court decides that evidence in a case was gained through an illegal search, then the evidence cannot be used at trial against the defendant. This principle is called the exclusionary rule.

-police are allowed to seize an item that can be seen in plain view from a place that an officer has a right to be

]]> 2019-04-29 15:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/hqgryrdskl03/wish/355049335 annalise_goulding https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/hqgryrdskl03/wish/355049536 -The presumption of innocence means that the deciders of fact in a trial the judge or jury, must regard the defendant as innocent until the government proves that he or she is guilty
-Defendants in felony criminal cases in all state and federal courts have a right to a jury trial. The Sixth Amendment provides for a trial “by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” Juries consist of citizens from the community in which the trial is taking place
-Many cases are settled by plea bargains before trial. This is a process whereby the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser crime than the one with which the defendant was originally charged in order to avoid a trial
-The Sixth Amendment provides that “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to … have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence
-The Sixth Amendment provides people accused of crimes with the right to confront (be face-to-face with) the witnesses against them and to ask them questions by way of cross-examination]]> 2019-04-29 15:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/hqgryrdskl03/wish/355049536 annalise_goulding https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/hqgryrdskl03/wish/357283253 2019-05-06 16:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/annalise_goulding/hqgryrdskl03/wish/357283253