Landmarks Flashcards
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Clear and convincing standard of proof in state involuntary commitment proceeding, held to be required by Fourteenth Amendment due process.
Addington v Texas
Addington v Texas constitutional issue
14th Amendment due process
Addington v Texas issue
What standard of proof is required by the 14th Amendment to involuntarily civilly commit an individual?
Texas Supreme Court in Addington v Texas said which standard of proof satisfied due process?
preponderance of the evidence
Addington v Texas court
SCOTUS
Sexually-dangerous-persons proceedings held civil rather than criminal, so that federal constitutional privilege against self-incrimination does not apply in such proceedings.
Allen v Illinois
Allen v Illinois court
SCOTUS
Allen v Illinois issue
Does the 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination apply in commitment proceedings for sexually dangerous persons?
what other landmark case does Allen v Illinois cite
-cited Estelle v Smith Dr. Grigson (Dr. Death) did comp eval w/o consent – used info from comp eval at death penalty sentencing
Execution of criminals who were mentally retarded held to constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of Federal Constitution’s Eighth Amendment.
Atkins v Virginia
Atkins v Virginia court
SCOTUS
Atkins v Virginia issue
Is it unconstitutional to execute a defendant who is mentally retarded?
starie decisis
let the decision stand (to violate means to overrule a prior ruling)
Landmark cases that exhibited starie decisis
Atkins v Virginia
Payne v Tennessee
Roper v Simmons
Atkins v Virginia dissent
made fun of citing poll data
Penry
prior rape offense – brutally stabs women decorating her apartment for Halloween on Oct 30th
Petitioner was denied equal protection of the laws by the statutory procedure whereby a person may be civilly committed at the expiration of a prison sentence without the jury review available to all others civilly committed in New York, and by his commitment to an institution maintained by the Department of Correction beyond the expiration of his prison term without the judicial determination that he is dangerously mentally ill such as that afforded to all those so committed except those nearing the end of a penal sentence.
Baxstrom v Herold
Baxstrom v Herold court
SCOTUS
Baxstrom v Herold issue
Is it unconstitutional to civilly commit an individual at the end of a prison sentence without judicial involvement?
Baxstrom v Herold constitutional issue
Violated 14th Amendment equal protection clause
Colorado v Connelly court
SCOTUS
Colorado v Connelly issue
Can a court deem a Miranda waiver involuntary despite no evidence of police coercion (i.e., based only on the defendant’s mental condition at the time of the waiver)?
Coercive police activity is a necessary predicate to finding that a confession is not “voluntary” within the meaning of the Due Process Clause.
Colorado v Connelly
Whenever the State bears the burden of proof in a motion to suppress a statement allegedly obtained in violation of the Miranda doctrine, the State need prove waiver only by a preponderance of the evidence.
Colorado v Connelly