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- order from a court to law enforcement agency to release a person in jail to determine if they have been legally detained
- writ of habeas corpus
- legislative act that declares a person guilty and gives out punishment wothout a trial
- bill of attainer
- law that punishes someone for a crime committed before the act was considered a crime
- ex post facto law
- reasonable grounds for suspicion based on evidence from a good source
- probable cause
- courtstandard ststing that evidence seized in an improper search cannot be used to obtain a conviction
- exclusionary rule
- death penalty for conviction of a serious crime
- capital punishment
- relationship between the classification of a group of people and the public purpose of the classification
- rational basis
- grouping made on the basis of race, sex, or national origin
- suspect classification
- separate by race
- segregate
- elimination of seperation by race
- desegregation
- segregation that is a result of law
- de jure segregation
- segregation that results from housing patterns and the practice of assigning students to neighborhood schools
- de facto segregation
- government programs designed to end effects of past discrimination and help disadvantaged groups
- affirmative action programs
- treating minorities differently from others in order to make up for past discrimination
- reverse discrimination