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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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2. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Appeal
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Limited
Courts
3. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Limited
Court Room Work Group
Adversarial System
4. What is meant by inferior courts?
Lower Courts
Mala en Se
Lexington - Concord
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
5. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Right away
Generalists
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Arrangement
6. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Superior Court
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
7. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Patronage
Adversarial System
Court Room Work Group
Worse
8. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Incapaciation
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Judicial - Executive
Statue of Winchester
9. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Habeas Corpus
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
10. What does a judge order the probation department to write in order to find more about an individual before sentencing?
Presentence Court Report
Evaluation
Discretion
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
11. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
State/Local Court System
14th Amendment
The Penal Code
90%
12. What are small law enforcement agencies often made up of?
Change
Lower Courts
Generalists
U.S. Marshall's
13. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Due Process
Discretion
Discretion
Intermediate Courts
14. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Evidence
National Crime Information Center
Sheriff
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
15. What two things do military police entities possess?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Assistant District Attorneys
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Judicial System = Institutional System
16. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Mala Prohibita
Community Orientated Policing Era
Possecomintatus
Limited
17. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Lower Courts
Tribal
Judicial Review
Pendelton Act
18. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Mala Prohibita
Presentence Court Report
19. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Boston Massacre
Discretion
County
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
20. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
Chief
Preliminary Hearing
First Continental Congress
Jurisdiction
21. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
U.S. Marshall's
Complaint
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
22. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Presentence Court Report
Formal Probation
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Incorrigibles
23. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
National Crime Information Center
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Jurisdiction
Constitutional Law
24. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Precedent
8th Amendment
Lower Courts
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
25. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Adversarial System
85%
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
1 and 8
26. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
Due Process Phase
Nolo Contendre
6th Amendment
State
27. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
1383
Sworn - Non-sworn
Discretion
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
28. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Change
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Yes
Continue to another date
29. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Complaint
5th Amendment
None
Precedent
30. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Misdemeanor
Due Process Phase
Discretion
Future laws not passed yet
31. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Tribal
4th Amendment
1903
Adversarial System
32. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Original Jurisdiction
Worse
Adversarial System
33. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Stare Decisis
State
F.B.I
Better
34. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
17 -500
None
1 and 8
Adversarial System
35. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Appeal
U.S. Constitution
Trial
U.S. Federal District Courts
36. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Punishment without trial
Right away
F.B.I.
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
37. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
Bill of Rights
F.B.I
State
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
38. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Better
1977 Dixon Bill
U.S. Marshall's
U.S. Constitution
39. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Arrangement
Petition
50 - 25000
40. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Aggravating - Mitigating
Limited
1 and 8
Deterrence
41. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Court Room Work Group
Articles of Confederation
Indeterminate Sentencing
42. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Own Recognizance
85%
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
5th Amendment
43. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
County
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
All volunteers
Statue of Winchester
44. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Miranda versus Arizona
Dual System
Precedent
Felony
45. The three federal courts are known as what?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
State
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
46. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Judiciary Act
Assistant District Attorneys
County
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
47. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Ah Peen
Stars
Adversarial System
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
48. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
All volunteers
17 -500
Preliminary Hearing
London Metropolitan Police Act
49. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Formal Probation
County
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Deterrence
50. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Misdemeanor
King Chamberlain's Court
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
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