Across
- 2. 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.
- 3. Giving evidence and answering questions that would tend to subject one to criminal prosecution.
- 5. 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).
- 7. reasonable grounds to believe a crime is being committed or has been committed
- 10. a standard based upon a U.S. Supreme Court decision which states law enforcement officers must warn a person taken into custody that he or she has the right to remain silent and is entitled to legal counsel
Down
- 1. Warranted suspicion that a person may be engaged in criminal conduct. Not quite to the level of probable cause.
- 4. The right to be represented by an attorney at critical stages of the criminal justice system.
- 6. 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.
- 8. 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.
- 9. document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police to make an arrest
- 11. process of police holding someone prior to arrest