Rights of the Accused: Criminal Amendments in the Bill of Rights

Grade Level: Elementary - Secondary
 

 The 36 teacher-created lessons collected in this publication are designed to introduce students to the rights of the accused and provide a scholarly study of these rights, exploring historical development as well as current application.  Lessons are provided for all grade levels.  The topics covered include the Bill of Rights, criminal rights amendments, juvenile law, and legal ethics.  An appendix contains the U.S. Bill of Rights, a simplified Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the Minnesota Constitution.
 

Lessons:  Introduction and Multiple Amendment  4th Amendment 5th Amendment 6th Amendment 8th Amendment 14th Amendment Miscellaneous Appendix

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Introducation and Multiple Amendment Lessons

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• All Men Are Created Equal, Darryl Erickson
• Bill of Rights - Remember Me!,Alan Anderson
• Children's Literature and the Bill of Rights, John Mueller
• Constitutional Tensions: Defendants Rights v. Rights of Society, Evan Brewer and Sandy Aldrich
• Dred Scott, Jean Bloomgren
• Explore and Know, Bernice Taylor
• Introduction to the Bill of Rights, Phyllis Brostrom
• People's Rights Change with the Decisions of the Courts, Dennis Roisum
• Presenting Constitutional Issues in a Non-adversarial Mode, Marylee Martig Johnson
• Whose Rights are Violated?, Tom Idstrom
• You Decide: Student Developed Guidelines for School Offenses, Doug Johnson

• Bill of Rights: Fourth Amendment, Bev Dyrland
• The Exclusionary Rule, Tom Newell
• The Fourth Amendment: Changes and Trends for the 90's, Alan Anderson
• The Love Note: An Introductory Lesson on the Fourth Amendment Right to Privacy, Doug Johnson
• Minnesota v. Ronald Riff: A Criminal Mock Trial, Pat Curran and Gary Strauch
• The Ongoing Debate: Crime Control v. Due Process Protection, Mike Carls
• Privacy and the Fourth Amendment, Christine Pistotnik
• The Rights of the Accused in Search and Seizure, Chieu Dao and Seng Lo
• Search and Seizure: What Does it Mean?, Gary Heath
• Understanding Some Implications of the Fourth Amendment, Edna Langerock

• Double Jeopardy Clause: A Fifth Amendment Constitution Trivia, Kathi Kusch and John Branstrom
• "Pleading the Fifth": Self-Incrimination and the Fifth Amendment, Tamara Uselman

• Case Studies on the Sixth Amendment: The Right to Counsel, Rich Barbeau
• The Right to Counsel, Gerald Rueckert and Art Hesse
• Right to Counsel: An Analysis of How the Right to an Attorney Expanded from Betts v. Brandy (1942) to Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Deb Baarsch and Gerald Louden
• To be Confronted With the Witnesses Against Him, Charles Saxton

• The Final Question, Kathy Costello
• Pretrial Release: ABA "Bail", Ruth Ann dePitera
• What is Cruel and Unusual, Pam Leindecker

• Equal Protection of the Law: Fact or Fiction, Cecil Ramnaraine

• Allen's Dilemma, Gerald Vitalis
• Draw the Line: Public Safety v. Amenability to Treatment A Juvenile Case, Lynn Gresser
• Lessons in Legal Ethics: Ethical Dilemmas, John Belpedio
• Lessons in Legal Ethics: The Limits of Defense, John Belpedio
• Lessons in Legal Ethids: Crime and the Media, John Belpedio

• U.S. Bill of Rights
• Simplified Constitution and Bill of Rights
• Minnesota Constitution

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