Exam 10: Ethical Misconduct in the Courts and Responses

The view that an individual has not rights unless these rights are specified in the Constitution or have been created by some other legal source is referred to as the:

Discuss the number of innocents who may be imprisoned.What are the sources for the estimates? What are the criticisms of the sources?

In ______________________,the Supreme Court ruled that defendants had no constitutional right to DNA evidence.

Interpretationists argue that the Constitution:

Aronson and McMurtrie identified prosecutorial misconduct as "tunnel vision," arguing that:

Operation Greylord was a judicial scandal in Chicago in which both attorneys and judges were convicted of bribery.

Strict constructionists argue that the Constitution:

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren,known as the _______________,was known for opinions that expanded civil liberties and protections.

The human tendency to seek to confirm rather than disconfirm is called:

The reasons for false convictions discussed in your text include all except:

Wrongful convictions are said to exist in about 20 percent of all cases.

It is called confirmatory bias when a judge decides a case ahead of time.

According to the text,which of the following statements about judicial misconduct is false?

Describe and discuss what polls show regarding the public's attitude toward attorneys.

An approach to the Constitution that uses a looser reading of the document is called:

According to the text,those freedoms and protections that the framers of the Constitution would have recognized if they had been asked are called:

In a 2006 Gallup Poll that rated the level of trust in the integrity of attorneys:

The idea that certain rights and morals are "natural," that is,not human created is called _____________________.

What is the evidence to indicate a pervasive pattern of racial bias in the system?

The ______________________ scandal involved the bribery of several Chicago judges.