Directions: Create a short "Bill of Rights" scenario (similar to the examples in your Workbook pages #204-207) in which at least three civil liberties are being violated. Remember, some of the Amendments protect us in more than one way.
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Ama Sika
11/15/2015 01:58:00 pm
A Muslim preacher was arrested one morning in front of the whole congregation of the mosque and when he asked the police officers for a warrant they refused to show it to him. When he tried to ask questions, he was beaten with a stick. He was taken to jail for six months, finally he was then told, that he is charged with religion accusations and he doesn't have the right to free religion. And he is part of the terrorists in America. Which wasn't true. Also they didn't give him the chance to speak. He was found guilty.
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Jamila
11/16/2015 04:41:00 am
Friday night and Tavon and the rest of hod basketball team was on there way home from a long day of school plus basketball practice. They all lived close to each other so they walked home together. But while on there way home they where stopped by police and where harassed and soon after their where frisked. At the end of the unnecessary stop and frisk they cop put all of them in handcuffs and placed them all in the police car without any reason whatsoever
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Rosa Drew
11/15/2015 03:28:32 pm
Eric was having a nice family day when all of a sudden they heard a knocking on the door. He opened the door just to have two police men pointing their guns at him and his family. One of them starts to automatically search the house. When Eric asks whats happening the other men answer that their neighbors suspect that Eric is selling drugs. They found the drug. Since they already had evidence they said Eric didn't need a lawyer. Two months later Eric was taken to trial and found guilty.
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Robert Loaiza
11/15/2015 04:23:35 pm
While on his way to take the subway to work, Issac noticed that he was being followed by two cops that he had seen about 20 minutes ago. A few minutes later he approached the station. As he had came to a stop the cops had finally confronted him and pulled a gun screaming "Get on the floor now!". Issac was terrified and not knowing what was going on started to talk to the cops and try to figure out why they were doing this. They had dismissed what he said and told him to shut up or they would shoot him. The other cop began to search him without consent from Issac and in doing so he took money from issac's wallet. The cop further continued to search his briefcase for something he had no knowledge of. Suddenly the cop struck issac and took his briefcase without saying what all this was for. Leaving him to lay on the ground bystanders passed by as if nothing had happened. Issac didn't blame them for he would have done the same thing, but what he do now?
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Samera Mohammad
11/15/2015 06:26:08 pm
Mary who was a catholic women owed a clothing shop and refused to allow Muslims into her shop.Once Maahi a Muslim man heard of this he decided to tell the police that she was simply breaking the law.As soon as the police spoke to Mary she blamed Maahi for planning to attack her shop.Without further questions the police took Maahi into custody and told him he doesn't have the right to a trial and will serve 20 years in prison.
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Kenny Hernandez
11/15/2015 07:45:55 pm
Bryant who has having a nice dinner with his family, hears a knock on his door,it was a solider. The soldiers tell him he gonna be staying here for a couple of months without even permission.After a couple of days the soldiers find a gun in the house and tells Bryant "you cant have this here if not imma have to tell the police". After he calls the police, police takes him to the precent and sentence him to 5 years in jail without trail.
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Janiya Baldwin
11/15/2015 07:52:54 pm
Hector Was a young Hispanic man who worked In his fathers book store with his friends who were volunteers as well. One day his father was sick so the boys were left in the book store alone so during closing , two officers approached the store banging saying they had the right to search the premises . Not knowing his rights hector opened the door and the officers busted in and began to ransacke the place when hector asked to see a warrant the officer then told him to " shut up " and pushed him down to the ground and began to beat him and then arrested him an when he asked why was he being arrested the officer told him not to question them and proceeded to handcuff him. While in the car , driving to the station hector kept protesting the cops on what they was doing and the cop then turned around and hit him with baton and told him he doesn't want to hear . Hector was then processed and awaited trial .. He was later sentenced to 25 years with no possible probation.
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Arlyn Ramos
11/15/2015 09:19:50 pm
Sally was a young orphan who would steal in order to survive . Sally had went to C town to steal some food , she went and stole a pack of cookies , bread , ham & cheese one of the C town employees had seen her sneak food into her bag , the employee informed her manager & the police were called . The police came & put sally in handcuffs with out reading her , her miranda rights .
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11/15/2015 10:31:48 pm
One day a police officer walked past a black man named Andre. As the police officer walked past Andre he notices that Andre had really nice and expensive clothes on. The police officer quickly became jealous and assumed that Andre stole all of his clothes. So the police officer decided to follow him home. A few minutes past by and Andre was chilling at his house. Suddenly the police officer barged into his house telling Andre to freeze. "What did i do?" said Andre in a nervous voice. The police officer punches Andre and tells him to shut up and to stop talking. Without a warrant, he then quickly searches Andre's house and found nothing. The officer puts cuffs on Andre and said "since you can buy expensive clothes I guess there is no problem for you paying for your own lawyer because we are not going to give you one" Andre then cries and said " I'm broke and my girlfriend buys all my clothing, we just broke up, and there is no reason to do this to me." The police officer didn't believe him and threw Andre into his car. Andre was then called upon the judge. Having to defend himself the jury found him guilty and was sentence to jail for life because of the accusation of stealing.
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Deonica Gordon
11/16/2015 02:50:18 am
One Day Justin Was Driving His Car on the high way.Justin Had Very Tinted windows On His car.He was then pull over by the police officers who started to search his car. " Why Did You pull me over" Justin ask but didn't get a reply. he Was Then arrested And taking into the police station .
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Tianna christie
11/17/2015 02:37:32 am
A group of guys kidnapped a girl 10 years ago and no one never found out. It turns out that two of the guys were really close friends with the police in their community so when the police was notified they brought back the child and had just let the group of guys off with a warning. Now that the child has grown up she is beginning to remember what happened to her, a case has been developed between both the police and the group of guys. Once the girl identified their faces they were formally arrested with no bail. At court the men were not given defence as decided by the judge that they have no case to plea. They were all found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
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Seianna Gowie
11/24/2015 09:30:57 pm
James is late for work, his boss had confronted him about his tardiness and told him that the next time he is late he will be fired. A police officer suddenly pulls him over for speeding. James steps out of the car and the officer searches it, no questions asked. "Sir I assure you this won't happen again, I just can't be late for work" James explained but the officer handcuffed him and took him to the police station.
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hope mates
12/13/2015 05:21:35 am
It was sat. night acoupleof friends over at my new place drinking having fun ,listening to music ,feeling nice .next thing i heard was a knock at the door....... i open the door and its two police officers , they justed walked in with out my permission and asked us what we were drinkin i repiled hennessy . he asked for my ID i couldnt find it at the time so they put cuffs on me
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