This topic contains a solution. Click here to go to the answer

Author Question: The Eighth Amendment guarantees which of the following? a. The right to be free from unreasonable ... (Read 80 times)

cdr_15

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 546
The Eighth Amendment guarantees which of the following?
 
  a. The right to be free from unreasonable searches.
  b. The right against double jeopardy.
  c. The right to an impartial jury.
  d. The right against cruel and unusual punishment.

Question 2

In Hurtado v. California the defendant complained that his Fifth Amendment rights were violated because he was not properly indicted by a grand jury. The Supreme Court ruled against him because:
 
  a. his crime wasn't a capital or otherwise infamous crime.
  b. California, unlike the federal government, could use an information rather than a grand jury indictment tocharge Hurtado.
 c. he confessed, so due process was irrelevant.
  d. the California grand jury had properly indicted him.



Related Topics

Need homework help now?

Ask unlimited questions for free

Ask a Question
Marked as best answer by a Subject Expert

uniquea123

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 311
Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b




cdr_15

  • Member
  • Posts: 546
Reply 2 on: Aug 16, 2018
Excellent


steff9894

  • Member
  • Posts: 337
Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

Did you know?

When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.

Did you know?

The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.

Did you know?

It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.

Did you know?

Malaria mortality rates are falling. Increased malaria prevention and control measures have greatly improved these rates. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have fallen globally by 60% among all age groups, and by 65% among children under age 5.

Did you know?

The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).

For a complete list of videos, visit our video library