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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Nolo Contendre
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Community Sensitive Programs
2. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Loosely Coupled System
Petition
U.S. Marshall's
Bill of Rights
3. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
90 Million
$1.7 million
Statue of Winchester
Incorrigibles
4. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Loosely Coupled System
Loosely Coupled
14
5th Amendment
5. What law enforcement agency maintains the largest training academy in the U.S.?
Body - Amendments
Jurisdiction
U.S. Marshall's
F.B.I.
6. What is discovery?
Judicial - Executive
Infraction
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Evidence
7. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Local level
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
8. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
Intermediate Courts
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Hoover
Stare Decisis
9. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
Very inactive
George Washington - John Adams
Judicial - Executive
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
10. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
Judiciary Act
Court Room Work Group
Federal Court System
The Penal Code
11. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
State
Statue of Winchester
Sheriff or Shireeve
Probation Officer
12. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Preliminary Hearing
Information
Pretrial Hearing
Court Administrator
13. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Mala en Se
King Chamberlain's Court
Loosely Coupled System
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
14. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
State
The Family Model
Constitutional Law
15. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Serpico
Incorrigibles
Felony
6th Amendment
16. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
14
6th Amendment
John Marshall
17. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Precedent
1899 Illinois
County
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
18. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Jurisdiction
Community Orientated Policing Era
London Metropolitan Police Act
Miranda versus Arizona
19. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Lower Courts
Infraction
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Pretrial Hearing
20. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Mala Prohibita
Patronage
Appeal
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
21. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
5th Amendment
Appeal
Government Attorney
1977 Dixon Bill
22. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Appeals
Assistant District Attorneys
U.S. Constitution
Precedent
23. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Aggravating - Mitigating
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
24. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Bill of Rights
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
1383
25. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Lexington - Concord
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
26. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Judiciary Act
Stars
Tribal
Boston Massacre
27. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Federal Court System
Superior Court
Complaint
Intermediate Courts
28. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Misdemeanor
1 and 8
17
Sheriff
29. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Trials
None
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Magna Carta
30. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Tribal
1899 Illinois
17 -500
Patrick Colquhoun
31. The Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program motivated police to try what new procedures?
Crime Control Due Process
Parens Patriae
Community Sensitive Programs
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
32. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Sir Robert Peel
John Augustus
Due Process
English Common Law
33. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Statue of Winchester
Sworn - Non-sworn
Discretion
34. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Habeas Corpus
Generalists
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Formal Probation
35. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Chief
Bench Trial
U.S. Constitution
Statue of Winchester
36. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Body - Amendments
14
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
37. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
$1.7 million
38. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Trial
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
17 -500
Trials
39. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Boston Massacre
Original Jurisdiction
Ah Peen
Serpico
40. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
U.S. Constitution
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Makes deals and not go to trial
41. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
17
Retribution
Hoover
Federal Court System
42. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Court Room Work Group
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Mala Prohibita
43. How is a jury panel selected?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
First Continental Congress
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
County
44. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Federal Court System
F.B.I.
Boston Massacre
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
45. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
John Marshall
Trials
Secret Service
Stars
46. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Judiciary Act
Article III of the Constitution
Life
4th Amendment
47. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
F.B.I.
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Due Process Phase
Habeas Corpus
48. What is a local law enforcement agency's head administrator?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Petition
Chief
49. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Petition
Mala Prohibita
1382
Intermediate Courts
50. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
State
Incorrigibles
Broken Windows
1383
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