GUILTY or NOT? / Case library / Categories
Every case in the library, grouped by what it is really about. A case can appear in more than one category — a drug-possession charge is often a search-and-seizure case underneath.
GUILTY or NOT? is the daily court case game from LAWGAMES: a real court case puzzle every day. Read the facts as the court had them, weigh both sides, decide GUILTY or NOT, then see what the court actually ruled.
Murder, manslaughter, felony murder and criminal negligence causing death — the cases where the question is not only what happened, but what the accused meant.
33 cases →Possession, trafficking, distribution, manufacturing and conspiracy cases involving controlled substances, from the Narcotic Act of 1914 to today.
31 cases →Cases that turn on the Fourth Amendment: warrants, traffic stops, frisks, consent, and what the police may do without asking a judge first.
29 cases →Miranda warnings, custodial questioning and the right to counsel — cases about what the accused said, and whether the police were allowed to hear it.
8 cases →Assault, battery, child abuse and weapons charges short of homicide.
13 cases →Robbery, burglary, larceny, conversion and receiving stolen property.
10 cases →Agreeing to a crime, helping one along, or answering for one somebody else committed.
9 cases →Rape and other sexual-offence charges.
2 cases →Vagrancy and loitering ordinances, public intoxication, obscenity, bribery, tax and the strict-liability regulatory offences where nobody has to prove you meant it.
13 cases →Driving under the influence and other charges that start with a car.
6 cases →A new real case every day. Read the brief, weigh both sides, commit to a verdict, then see what the court decided — and why.