Law and International Law

 

Name: _______________________________________

 

 

Rewrite the following sentences to eliminate excess words:

 

1. These cases are similar to each other in many ways.

 

These cases are similar to each other.

 

2. The expectation of privacy within the police car is not one society would consider as a reasonable expectation of privacy.

 

The expectation of privacy in a police car is not a reasonable expectation of privacy in society.

 

3. In the case of Inciarrano v. State, Inciarrano went to the office of the victim over a business deal between the two that had gone bad.

 

 

4. The case against Jane Doe and the case of Inciarrano are of similar nature.

 

The case against Jane Doe and the case Inciarrano are similar.

 

5. In both of the cases there is a tape recorder involved that captured the murders on audiotape.

 

A tape recorder was involved in both cases and captured the murders.

In both cases a tape recorder captured the murders.

 

Insert or remove apostrophes in the following sentences as needed:

 

1. Should the tape seized from Jane Does home be suppressed?

 

Should the tape seized from Jane Does’ home be suppressed?

 

2. In this case, and in the Jane Doe case, both defendant’s were asked to sit in the back of a patrol car for “safety and comfort reasons.”

 

In this case, and in the Jane Doe case, both defendants were asked to sit in the back of a patrol car for “safety and comfort reasons.”

 

 

3. Prior to her husbands arrival, Jane Doe decides to tape-record the meeting.

 

Prior to her husband’s arrival, Jane Doe decides to tape-record the meeting.

 

 

4. According to the courts ruling in Smith, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the back of a police car.

According to the court’s ruling in Smith, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the back of a police car.

 

 

5. Carducci privacy rights were violated because her conversation was tape-recorded and later broadcast on television.

 

Rewrite the following sentences correcting any sentence fragments.

 

1. Also that she was seeing the neighbor.

Also, she was seeing the neighbor.

She was seeing the neighbor.

 

2. Because Jane Doe and Joe did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy; the tape recording made by the officers in the patrol car would not be suppressed.

 

The tape recorder made by the officers in the patrol car would not be suppressed, because Jane Doe and Joe did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

 

 

3. Which means anyone who knowingly tapes or discloses an illegally taped conversation is doing something illegal.

 

Anyone who knowing tapes or discloses conversation is doing something illegal.

 

4. Because the tape contained information about marijuana and an extramarital affair of a public figure.

 

The tape contained information about marijuana and an extramarital affair of a public figure.

 

5. Whereas, in Carducci, the tape was played on the news and because Carducci was running for re-election, it affected the outcome.

The tape that was played on the news affected the outcome of Carducci reelection.

 

Analyze the following passages, and rewrite them to eliminate run-on sentences.

 

1. These issues and answers are based on reasoning, the reasoning comes from the cases.

 

The issues and answers are based on reasoning from the cases.

 

2. There was no oral communication therefore there was no felony committed.

Because there was no oral communication committed there was no felony.

There was no felony committed because there was no oral communication.

 

 

3. Society would not believe the expectation was reasonable, therefore under this statute the tape recording would not be suppressed.

 

 

 

4. The officer asks if he can search Clark’s house, she agrees.

 

Clark agree to the officer searching her house.

 

5. Carducci can sue for civil remedies, she would have to sue the person who illegally taped her conversation.

Carducci can sue the person who illegally  taped her conversation for civil liberties.

 

Now, rewrite the following sentence correcting any errors in parallel construction:

 

1. The issue is whether the utterances made by the defendant were made with a reasonable expectation of privacy and therefore inadmissible.

 

 

 

2. Accordingly, we are again confronted with a two-part analysis of the Fourth Amendment right to privacy which requires the person to (1) have a subjective expectation of privacy; and (2) that the expectation must be one that society recognizes as reasonable.

 

 

 

3. Both cases include a cellular phone conversation taped by unknown persons, the media playing this conversation, a conversation that is of great public concern, and statutes that allow the persons whose conversations were taped to sue for civil remedies.

 

 

 

4. The newscaster wanted to inform citizens about the person whom they trusted and received their vote to fulfill an important position.

 

 

5. Defendants submit this memorandum of law in support of their motion for summary judgment because they played no part in the illegal taping, that their access to the information was obtained lawfully, and that the conversation was a matter of public concern.

 

 

Rewrite the following sentences correcting any antecedent problems:

 

1. Smith consented to be seated in the officer’s patrol car for safety reasons while the officer searched his car.

 

 

2. A person has a reasonable expectation of privacy in their house.

 

 

3. In Inciarrano, Inciarrano went to the victim’s office building with the initial intention of informing him that he no longer wished to participate in a business deal and thus, was an invitee as he had initially entered for a lawful purpose.

 

 

 

4. The officers then placed the client and her neighbor in the police car while they searched the house.

 

 

5. A while after, the officers came out and told the suspects that they had just found the recording and had them on tape with everything they had just said in the back of the squad car.
   

Rewrite the following sentences in active voice:

 

1. A conversation between Inciarrano and the murder victim was surreptitiously recorded by the victim.

 

 

 

2. The vehicle was searched and Brandin was subsequently arrested.

 

 

 

3. The decision to deny his motion to suppress was affirmed by the appellate court.

 

 

 

4. The defendant was charged with possession of cocaine.

 

 

 

5. The defendant’s motion to suppress the taped conversation was denied by the trial court.

 

 

Rewrite the following sentences keeping the verb tense consistent:

 

1. Not remembering that the tape recorder was still on, she went next door and gets her neighbor.

 

 

 

2. They went back to Doe’s house and begin to come up with a cover up story.

 

 

 

3. The police arrived and Jane and Joe tell the officer that there was a robbery and when Jane came in the house, she saw her husband dead.

 

 

 

4. An anonymous person taped a conversation between Congresswoman Carducci and her intern, Nico. In the conversation, they talk about Carducci’s addiction to illegal drugs.

 

 

 

5. Congresswoman Carducci was unaware that her conversation was being taped. Nico tells Carducci that he is afraid that he will be exposed and he wanted to end their affair.

 

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