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- 2. Reasonable suspicion or belief that a crime has been committed and that a particular person committed that crime.
- 6. The constitutional rights of citizens against government actions that threaten the denial of life, liberty, or property. In criminal cases, arrests and trials must meet certain minimum standards of fairness, and laws cannot violate constitutional rights.
- 8. Giving evidence and answering questions that would tend to subject one to criminal prosecution.
- 9. A court-ordered document giving law enforcement the authority to arrest someone on a specific charge.
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- 1. The right to a grand jury for a capital or serious crime; protection against double jeopardy; protection against self- incrimination; prohibition of the taking of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
- 3. The right to be represented by an attorney at critical stages of the criminal justice system.
- 4. Taking a person suspected of committing a crime into custody and curtailing the individual’s freedom to leave, until the person can be brought before a judge to answer the charges against him or her.
- 5. Warranted suspicion that a person may be engaged in criminal conduct. Not quite to the level of probable cause.
- 7. The warning given to suspects by law enforcement, advising suspects of their legal rights to counsel, to refuse to answer questions, to avoid self-incrimination, and other privileges. Named after the landmark case of Miranda v. Arizona (1966).