What is a Due Process?
What will be an ideal response?
A right guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and generally understood, in legal contexts, to mean the due course of legal proceedings according to the rules and forms established for the protection of individual rights. In criminal proceedings, due process of law is generally understood to include the following basic elements: a law creating and defining the offense, an impartial tribunal having jurisdictional authority over the case, accusation in proper form, notice and opportunity to defend, trial according to established procedure, and discharge from all restraints or obligations unless convicted.
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a. True b. False
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a. lower b. higher c. about the same d. extremely lower
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A. failed B. succeeded C. slightly helped D. had little impact
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A) ?psychological B) ?choice C) ?sociobiological D) ?developmental E) ?contact