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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is another term for informal probation?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Stare Decisis
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Conditional Sentence
2. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Trial
U.S. Federal District Courts
Preliminary Hearing
Judicial/Legislative
3. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Stars
Federal Court System
4. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Pretrial Hearing
Loosely Coupled
Original Jurisdiction
Bill of Rights
5. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Discretion
17 -500
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
The Family Model
6. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Court Administrator
Mala Prohibita
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Pretrial Hearing
7. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
County
Lexington - Concord
Crime Control Due Process
14
8. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
Sworn - Non-sworn
17 -500
Courts
Parens Patriae
9. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Life
Stare Decisis
8th Amendment
Court Room Work Group
10. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Court Room Work Group
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Discretion
Own Recognizance
11. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
F.B.I
1203(b)(1) - Felony
90%
The Penal Code
12. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Due Process Phase
4th Amendment
London Metropolitan Police Act
Community Orientated Policing Era
13. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
Formal Probation
Local level
Miranda versus Arizona
Patronage
14. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Due Process Phase
Serpico
Hoover
F.B.I.
15. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Future laws not passed yet
Precedent
Makes deals and not go to trial
Possecomintatus
16. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Incapaciation
Trials
Precedent
Lower Courts
17. What does O.R. mean?
Own Recognizance
1899 Illinois
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
14
18. The three federal courts are known as what?
Sheriff
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
14
Mala en Se
19. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Serpico
Arrangement
Community Sensitive Programs
Limited
20. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Appeals
State
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Bill of Rights
21. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
6th Amendment
Article III of the Constitution
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Continue to another date
22. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Courts
Patronage and Corruption
Sir Robert Peel
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
23. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
English Common Law
Attorney General
All volunteers
Appeals
24. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
Superior Court
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Hoover
Indeterminate Sentencing
25. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
8th Amendment
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Parens Patriae
26. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Due Process Phase
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Conditional Sentence
27. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Due Process Phase
Patrick Colquhoun
John Marshall
Better
28. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Habeas Corpus
Loosely Coupled
34
1903
29. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?
Stars
County
John Augustus
Broken Windows
30. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1382
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Stare Decisis
31. What Latin term means great paper?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
State
None
Magna Carta
32. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
State
1899 Illinois
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
5th Amendment
33. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Infraction
4th Amendment
Parens Patriae
34. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Ah Peen
Nolo Contendre
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Petition
35. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Loosely Coupled
39
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Nolo Contendre
36. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
1 and 8
Preliminary Hearing
85%
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
37. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Preliminary Hearing
Habeas Corpus
1382
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
38. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
John Marshall
Deterrence
Original Jurisdiction
Constitutional Law
39. What is meant by inferior courts?
Appeals
Formal Probation
Lower Courts
Court Room Work Group
40. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Stare Decisis
Worse
F.B.I
Bench Trial
41. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
F.B.I
Pretrial Hearing
Discretion
1977 Dixon Bill
42. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
1977 Dixon Bill
14
1 and 8
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
43. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Government Attorney
Chief
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Precedent
44. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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45. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Probation Officer
Lexington - Concord
Mary Ann Crouse
Misdemeanor
46. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Conditional Sentence
1977 Dixon Bill
F.B.I.
Complaint
47. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
The Family Model
U.S. Constitution
Misdemeanor
48. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Secret Service
Prison Time - Death Sentence
49. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Secret Service
Arrangement
Life
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
50. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
Trials
50 - 25000
Patronage
Vigilantes