This document contains several assignments for a law course focusing on individual rights and social order. The assignments involve analyzing and briefing Supreme Court cases related to 4th, 5th and 6th Amendment rights, writing legal memorandums and papers examining search and seizure law, the right to a fair trial, and how the legal system balances individual rights with social order. Students are instructed to research the topics using academic databases and to format their writing according to APA style over the course of multiple assignments during the term.

1. LEG 420 Week 4 Assignment 1 Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment
Rights
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Assignment 1: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment Rights
Due Week 4 and worth 150 points
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects citizens against
police officers making unreasonable searches and seizures of personal
property. The Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee the procedures
that the courts and police must use to ensure fair treatment of persons
arrested for crimes.
Analyze the following cases in preparation for a systematic approach for
a synthesis of law and fact.
Review each of the follow cases:
Katz v. United States, 389 US 347 (1967), located
athttp://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?
case=9210492700696416594&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr
Miranda v. Arizona (1966) located athttp://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-
bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=384&invol=436
Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:
Prepare a two to three (2-3) page briefing from one (1) of the two (2)
cases that you reviewed in which you utilized the following areas of

2. importance: a) issue presented; b) short answer; c) the facts of the case;
d) a summary of the case; and e) a conclusion of the case outcome.
Examine the importance of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment of
the U.S. Constitution, and determine which amendment offers the
greatest protection for defendants in a typical U.S. court case. Justify the
position.
Explore the overall importance of the Fifth Amendment rights. Suggest
key events from the Miranda v. Arizona case in which you believe law
enforcement had violated the fundamental nature of one’s Fifth
Amendment right. Justify the response.
Examine three (3) instances in which the Fourth Amendment protects
you against unlawful search and seizure. Provide examples of such
occurrences to support the response.
Discuss the two (2) prong test articulated by the court which determines
the actual nature of a reasonable expectation of privacy. Justify the
validity of the test in the courts holding for the Katz v. United States
case.
Analyze whether or not today’s standards allowing government access to
all electronic technologies through legislation, like the Uniting and
Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required To
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T) Act of 2001,
have effectively negated the holding in Katz v. United States.
Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other
Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with
one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA
or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s
name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover
page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment
page length.

3. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment
are:
Illustrate the workings of the adversary system.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in U.S.
courts.
Write clearly and concisely about U.S. courts using proper writing
mechanics and APA style conventions.
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LEG 420 Week 6 Case Study 2 Ballew v. Georgia, 435 U.S. 223 (1978)
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Case Study 2: Ballew v. Georgia, 435 U.S. 223 (1978)
Due Week 6 and worth 150 points
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution limits the power of the
police to make arrests, search people and their property, and seize
objects and contraband, such as illegal drugs or weapons. These limits
are the bedrock of search and seizure law, and are ultimately at the root
of your right to privacy.
Analyze the following case in preparation for a systematic approach to
your synthesis of law and fact:
Ballew v. Georgia, 435 U.S. 223 (1978) located
athttp://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?
navby=case&court=us&vol=435&page=223
Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

4. Prepare a two to three (2-3) page briefing on the case that you reviewed
in which you utilize the following areas of importance: a) issue
presented; b) short answer; c) the facts of the case; d) a summary of the
case; and e) a conclusion of the case outcome.
Discuss the historical background behind the right to a twelve (12)
person jury under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Provide relevant examples of such historical importance to support the
response.
Analyze the role of the jury, as defined by the Sixth Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution.
Discuss the fundamental protections available to a defendant under the
Fourth Amendment as they relate to the concept of liberty, to the
American system of jurisprudence, and to the right to a twelve (12)
person jury. Provide a rationale for the response.
Support or oppose the following quote from Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Law
Professor at the University of Michigan: “Ideally, the knowledge,
perspectives, and memories of the individual members are compared and
combined, and individual errors and biases are discovered and discarded,
so that the final verdict is forged from a shared understanding of the
case.” Justify the response.
Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other
Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with
one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA
or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s
name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover
page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment
page length.

5. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment
are:
Illustrate the workings of the adversary system.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in U.S.
courts.
Write clearly and concisely about U.S. courts using proper writing
mechanics and APA style conventions.
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LEG 420 Week 8 Assignment 2 Terry V.Ohio 392 U.S. 1, 88 S. Ct. 1868,
20 L. ED.2d 889, 1968 U.S.
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Assignment 2: Terry v. Ohio 392 U.S. 1, 88 S. Ct. 1868, 20 L. ED.2d
889, 1968 U.S.
Due Week 8 and worth 150 points
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution limits the power of the
police to make arrests, search people and their property, and seize
objects and contraband, such as illegal drugs or weapons. These limits
are the bedrock of search and seizure law and are ultimately at the root
of your right to privacy.
Analyze the following case in preparation for a systematic approach to
your synthesis of law and fact:
Terry v. Ohio located at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-
bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=392&invol=1

6. Write an eight to ten (8-10) page legal Memorandum paper in which
you:
Summarize five (5) key aspects of Terry v. Ohio.
Examine the dissenting opinion of Justice Douglas, as discussed in the
case. Discuss the origins and importance of probable cause as it relates
to law enforcement’s discretion to search Terry’s car in this case.
Examine the two (2) part test provided by the court in Terrythat first
asks whether the officer’s action is justified at its inception; and second,
asks whether it is reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which
justified the interference in the first place. Discuss whether or not this
test leaves officers with too much discretion when making a
determination to stop an individual. Provide a rationale for the response.
Examine the court’s holding in Terry that provides that probable cause is
based upon the totality of the circumstances. Review the factors that
help shape the totality of circumstances, such as specialized knowledge
of the officers, investigative inferences, personal observations of
suspicious behavior, and information from other sources. Question
whether these factors in question are too subjective to establish probable
cause. Provide a rationale for the response.
Debate the validity of the court’s holding that “whenever a police officer
accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away, he has
“seized” that person with the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. Justify
the response.
Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other
Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with
one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA
or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s
name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover

7. page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment
page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment
are:
Illustrate the workings of the adversary system.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in U.S.
courts.
Write clearly and concisely about U.S. courts using proper writing
mechanics and APA style conventions.
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LEG 420 Week 10 Term Paper Individual Rights and Social Order
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Term Paper: Individual Rights and Social Order
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points
Over the course of the term, this course has focused on the concepts of
Individual Rights as protected under the Bill of Rights, as well as the
role of the legal systems and its unrelenting pursuit of Social Order.
Each concept balances the other to ensure that rules, institutions, and
public initiatives can be executed in a standardized and judicious manner
for the benefit of a civilized society.
Review the following in preparation to follow a systematic approach to
your synthesis of law and fact:

8. Champion, D. J., Hartley, R. D., & Rabe, G.A. (2012). Chapter 1 Law:
The Legal Battlefield. In Criminal courts: Structure, process, and
issues(3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:
Explain the difference in individual rights and social order, and examine
the major effects of both on the legal system overall.
Choose one (1) of the social controls discussed within Chapter 1, and
give your opinion as to the amendment which offers the most protection
of the social control that you selected. Address whether the chosen
Amendment is simply an instrument of protection to ensure that the
rights and liberties of citizens are secure, whether it provides a
framework to facilitate citizen / governmental interactions, or both.
Explain the answer.
Discuss the essentials ways in which the law effectuates social change in
American society through judicial activism. Provide a rationale for the
response.
Examine the overall importance of both substantive law and procedural
law. Suggest three (3) ways in which these two (2) types of laws can
protect both individual rights and social order. Discuss the invaluable
aspects of substantive and procedural in keeping the adversarial system
in balance while protecting individual rights and social order. Justify the
response.
Analyze the key differences between criminal law, civil law, and
administrative law. Discuss the role of each when criminal and
administrative law or civil and administrative law intersects in the
litigation process. Propose two (2) ways in which these three (3) types of
laws protect individual rights and social order. Justify the response.
Review the three (3) functions of law. Explain the essential manner in
which the law overall ensures the existence of adequate order, provides
resolutions to conflicts, and protects civil liberties (e.g., freedom of
thought, belief, expression, and assembly; protection against

9. unreasonable searches and seizures; and provisions for a court hearing
prior to government taking of property) as set forth in the U.S.
Constitution.
Debate whether or not social control(s), as a function of law, play a
fundamentally positive/creative role or negative / restrictive role in the
development of modern American law. Provide a rationale for the
response.
Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other
Websites do not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with
one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA
or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s
name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover
page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment
page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment
are:
Analyze the functions of law and identify various types of law.
Describe the structure of American courts, including federal and state
courts, and explain court jurisdiction.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in U.S.
courts.
Write clearly and concisely about U.S. courts using proper writing
mechanics and APA style conventions.

10. Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic /
organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the
following rubric.
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