Exam 2: Criminal Procedure and the Constitution

The Constitution is a different type of document than a statute, because it expresses the will of the people as a whole.

Equal protection claims based on selective prosecution are difficult to prove, because claimants have to prove that the prosecutor had a discriminatory purpose and that the prosecution had:

There are two main petitions a defendant can use to ask a higher court to review a decision made by a lower court: habeas corpus and:

In which of the following cases did the court say (regarding selective enforcement of drug laws)that the majority of elevated penalties fall on Black users while the majority of users were White?

The early Roman republic had virtually no safeguards for individuals against government power in its law of criminal procedure.