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Mapp v. Ohio dealt with illegal detention of suspects and forcing them to make a confession

It is violative of the Fourteenth Amendment for police to include ethnicity or skin color as a factor in profiles.

A magistrate may consider hearsay evidence when determining whether to issue a warrant.

1) What is the no-contact rule? 2) Upon what theory is the rule predicated in criminal law? 3) What was the relevance of the rule in the Joseph McDade case?

Name and then define each of the two prongs in the two-pronged test which must be met for a successful claim of ineffectiveness of counsel at a sentencing hearing? 1. Name of Test  2. Define Prong One  3. Define Prong two

In Graham v. Florida, the Court held that a juvenile may not be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for a nonhomicide crime. 

The United States employs an adversarial system of adjudication. 

For the most part, fans of sport are happy with the commodification of sport and have no desire to go back to the way things were. 

The idea that sport depends on the visibility which media provides whereas the media relies on sport to generate revenue is best defined by which of the following terms? 

 Referencing what gender is playing a given sport (e.g. NBA and WNBA) is an example of which of the following terms?