Criminal Law: Supreme Court Cases
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- Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) Executing mentally retarded people convicted of crimes is prohibited under the Eighth Amendment as cruel and unusual punishment.
- Baze v. Rees, __ U.S. __ (2008) Kentucky's three-drug protocol for lethal injections does does not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
- Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925) Holding that one cannot be convicted of a criminal offense for advocating differnt politicla views, since "freedom of speech and of press...are among the fundamental personal rights and liberties protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from impairment by the State."
- Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004) Holding terror suspects in military custody indefinitely without being charged ruled unlawful, and that people who are charged have the right to a “fair opportunity to rebut the government's factual assertions before a neutral decisionmaker."
- Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961) Holding that States are required to exclude evidence seized by illegal search and seizure in violation of the 4th Amendment.
- Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) Historic Supreme Court case holding that when a person is taken into police custody, before being questioned he or she must be told of the Fifth Amendment right not to make any self-incriminating statements.
- Ohio v. Roberts, 448 U.S. 56 (1980) Outlining certain exceptions to the use of 'hearsay' evidence
- Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. __ (2007) Supreme Court court rules, 5–4, that a mentally ill murderer should not be executed because he lacked rational understanding of why he was sentenced.
- Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005) Holding that "evolving standards of decency" and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment warrant the banning of juvenile executions.
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