Description
This is a 3 page essay, no grammatical errors and will be checked by turn it in for plagiarizm.
1. The following presentation is intended to help students complete the Supreme Court case essay assignment for Criminal Law.
2. Choose a Supreme Court case that interests you. You may choose any case on a criminal law topic heard by the Supreme Court of the United States to research and write an essay about it. One example is Birchfield v. North Dakota, 579 U.S. ____ (2016) but there are hundreds more!
3. Research the details about the case (answer the 5 research questions: Who, What, When, Where and Why). Take notes about what you discover. Note the sources of your information. You must list your sources at the end of the essay in BlueBook or APA citation format, use proper footnotes in Bluebook format throughout the essay or you may use in-text citation if you are using APA, and properly cite the sources of each piece of information in the essay itself. For details on how to do this, please review the Legal Studies Program Writing Guide in the APUS Library. Of course you can also use the Bluebook, and you may ask your professor for assistance as required.
4. After researching a case, organize the information you have collected by making an outline. A basic structure for organizing your information might be as follows.
A. Introduction:
1. Identify the name of the case and when it was heard before SCOTUS.
2. Identify the parties involved in the case.
3. Briefly describe the focus of the case.
B. Describe the case itself: What was the controversy in the case?
C. How did the case move through the courts before reaching SCOTUS?
1. What court had original jurisdiction in the case?
2. How had previous courts ruled in the case?
D. What did the Supreme Court rule in the case?
1. What was the argument of the majority opinion?
2. What was the argument of the minority opinion?
E. What was the reasoning used by the Supreme Court to reach its decision? How did it reach its decision?
F. Conclusion: How does the Court’s ruling in the case affect Americans today?
1. Has the Court’s ruling in the case affected other rulings in other cases?
2. Has the Court’s ruling affected the interpretation and enforcement of any particular laws, and how those laws are enforced?
3. If applicable: Has the Court’s ruling in this case affected you, or someone you know, personally?
5. Write your essay. If you organized your information based on the suggested outline, then all you have to do is write down what you have learned from your research, and put it into a footnoted two to three page essay. Your first paragraph is the introduction (the information under letter A of your outline). The second paragraph is the information under letter B, and so on. Please note that you may also create your essay as a power point. Though, please convert it into a PDF when you submit it for grading. Turnitin doesn't accept Microsoft PowerPoint so if you need to submit work in this format, e.g. a presentation, you must convert your files to PDF first.
6. Sources: Be sure to cite your sources, using sequentially numbered footnotes. That means any information you learned from another source, such as a website, a magazine article, a videotaped interview etc., must be properly noted in your essay. Make sure you use footnotes in proper BlueBook or APA citation style. Footnotes appear at the bottom of EACH page, not at the end of the document (those are endnotes). If you have questions about citations, ask your instructor prior to turning in the assignment.
Unformatted Attachment Preview
Purchase answer to see full attachment
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Running Head: MISSOURI VS MCNEELY
1
Missouri vs McNeely:
Student’s Name:
Instructor’s Name:
Institutional affiliation:
Date:
MISSOURI VS MCNEELY
2
Introduction
The supreme court of the United States in the most senior court in the US and gets
appeals from courts of a lower jurisdiction all the time. Among the cases was the case called
Missouri vs McNeely. This case was heard by the supreme court of the united states after it
was appealed from the supreme court of Missouri. The case was about the allowed exceptions
to the fourth amendment to the constitution of the United States. The court was to determine
whether an exception could be made under exigent circumstances. The parties to the case were
the State of Missouri, which was the party that filed the appeal and one Tyler Gabriel McNeely,
who was the respondent, (Clarke, 2014). The supreme court of the united states ruled those
police officers have no right to make a suspected drunken driver take a blood test without a
warrant from a neutral judge, no matter the circumstances, and that the absorption of alcohol
in to the bloodstream does not establish an exigency in all the cases that are enough to allow a
police officer or anyone per se to conduct a blood test on a drunken-driving suspect without a
warrant from a judge who is generally neutral to the case. Further details about the case will be
thoroughly discussed in the paper.
Description of the case
Missouri vs McNeely case was a first and served as an example to similar cases after
that. The background to the case was as follows. on the third of October in the year 2010, at
exactly 2:08 am, the respondent Tyler Gabriel McNeely was stopped by a highway patrol
officer. The officer said that he stopped the respondent after noticing that he was driving above
the speed limit. In addition to this, the officer also said that he had seen Tyler Gabriel McNeely
cross over the centreline. But when he approached the respondent, the officer said that he saw
indicators that showed that Tyler McNeely was intoxicated. The officer said that the
respondent’s speech was slurred, his eyes we...