Brown V Board Of Education Case Study

In 1992, four police officers were accused for of beating Rodney King, and they were tried in a California state court. They were acquitted of assault charges, and were then prosecuted in federal court for the violation of King’s civil rights. Here, only two of the four were convicted. According to the dual sovereignty doctrine, state and federal courts can accuse the same person for the same offense. The Supreme Court kept this doctrine for two reasons. For one, each level of government has the right to enact laws serving its own purposes. This would result in federal civil rights charges against the officers, even if they had already been convicted in state court. Second, neither level of government wants the other to block prosecution of an accused person who has sympathy from the authorities at one level. When certain southern state courts showed sympathy to whites who lynched blacks, the absence of the doctrine would show that the false accusations in state court would have prevented federal prosecution.
A writ of certiorari is an order written by a higher court directing a lower court to send up a case for review. The Latin word certiorari means “made more certain,”

A popular example of this was a case called Brown v. Board of Education. In 1954, Linda Brown, a black girl, was attending the fifth grade in the Topeka, Kansas public schools. Linda, however, was denied her equal protection of of the laws, as stated in the Fourteenth Amendment, because the schools in Topeka were segregated. Not only did the court affirm Linda Brown’s right to attend an unsegregated public school, but this was extended to a national level. Brown’s lawyers from NAACP had asked to “cover all ‘others similarly situated.’” The courts had difficulty in creating an order that eliminated segregation in public schools, but the case itself brought light to the