Q 01/05

The 1966 Supreme Court case requiring police to inform suspects of their rights is named after which defendant?

A) Danny Escobedo

B) Charles Katz

C) Robert Chimel

D) Ernesto Miranda

Answer · why

D) Ernesto Miranda

Ernesto Miranda won his case, but prosecutors retried him without the confession and he was convicted again in 1967.

Q 02/05

Gideon v Wainwright (1963) required state courts to provide defendants with what?

A) A speedy trial

B) A lawyer

C) Reasonable bail

D) A twelve-person jury

Answer · why

B) A lawyer

A lawyer made the difference: retried with counsel, Clarence Earl Gideon was acquitted of the Florida break-in that had sent him to prison.

Q 03/05

Mapp v Ohio (1961) applied which doctrine to state prosecutions?

A) The felony murder rule

B) The rule of lenity

C) The exclusionary rule

D) The best evidence rule

Answer · why

C) The exclusionary rule

The exclusionary rule overturned Dollree Mapp's conviction for obscene books that police found during an illegal search of her home for a fugitive.

Q 04/05

Terry v Ohio (1968) held that police may 'stop and frisk' someone on what standard?

A) Probable cause

B) Clear and convincing evidence

C) Beyond a reasonable doubt

D) Reasonable suspicion

Answer · why

D) Reasonable suspicion

Reasonable suspicion was enough for a plainclothes officer who watched men repeatedly pace past a store window, then frisked them and found pistols.

Q 05/05

Batson v Kentucky (1986) barred prosecutors from using peremptory challenges to exclude jurors based on what?

A) Age

B) Occupation

C) Religion

D) Race

Answer · why

D) Race

Race was the issue: a prosecutor struck all four Black potential jurors, and an all-white jury convicted James Batson of burglary.