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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
Discretion
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
17 -500
2. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Marbury versus Madison
Punishment without trial
Community Sensitive Programs
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
3. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Right away
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Serpico
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
4. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
U.S. Marshall's
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Parens Patriae
Adversarial System
5. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
State
Judicial - Executive
Appeals
Constitutional Law
6. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
Mary Ann Crouse
Appeal
Punishment without trial
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
7. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
830.1
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
All volunteers
Lexington - Concord
8. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Miranda versus Arizona
Trials
Discretion
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
9. What legal model first attempted the concept of rehabilitation and resocialization?
Worse
The Family Model
Dual System
Adversarial System
10. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Right away
Judiciary Act
8th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals
11. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Article III of the Constitution
Federal Court System
5th Amendment
King Henry II
12. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
King John
Patronage
17
13. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Patronage and Corruption
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
F.B.I.
14. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
830.1
Precedent
Incorrigibles
King Henry II
15. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
Incorrigibles
Incapaciation
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Judicial Review
16. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
Statue of Winchester
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Parens Patriae
Complaint
17. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
First Continental Congress
Appeal
Dual System
Judiciary Act
18. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Nolo Contendre
Possecomintatus
90 Million
Probation Officer
19. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Stamp Act of 1765
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
20. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Due Process
County
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
21. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Preliminary Hearing
Judicial/Legislative
F.B.I.
Continue to another date
22. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Due Process Phase
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
County
23. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Possecomintatus
39
17 -500
Court Administrator
24. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Intermediate Courts
Patrick Colquhoun
Formal Probation
King John
25. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
F.B.I.
Makes deals and not go to trial
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
26. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Future laws not passed yet
Sworn - Non-sworn
Potential for Incarceration
Court Room Work Group
27. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Possecomintatus
Secret Service
Tribal
U.S. Postal Inspectors
28. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Yes
Judiciary Act
$1.7 million
Due Process Phase
29. How many states use the death penalty?
King John
Judicial Review
34
Judicial - Executive
30. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Indeterminate Sentencing
14
Sworn - Non-sworn
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
31. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Stare Decisis
Life
1977 Dixon Bill
Precedent
32. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Court Room Work Group
Sir Robert Peel
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Marbury versus Madison
33. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Due Process
830.1
Tribal
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
34. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Assistant District Attorneys
Potential for Incarceration
Community Orientated Policing Era
Superior Court
35. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
King Henry II
1903
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Felony
36. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
Broken Windows
1903
Yes
Bill of Rights
37. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?
Judiciary Act
Judicial System = Institutional System
Petition
Indeterminate Sentencing
38. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?
Crime Control - Due Process
Stamp Act of 1765
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Trials
39. In 1789 which London magistrate stressed the need for a 'centralized' law enforcement agency?
Nolo Contendre
Patrick Colquhoun
Loosely Coupled
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
40. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Future laws not passed yet
Bench Trial
Limited
41. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Adversarial System
Sir Robert Peel
Original Jurisdiction
830.1
42. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
All volunteers
State/Local Court System
Discretion
Discretion
43. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Special Police Force
85%
State
Potential for Incarceration
44. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
Parens Patriae
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
14th Amendment
Government Attorney
45. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
English Common Law
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Assistant District Attorneys
Community Sensitive Programs
46. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Sir Robert Peel
Chief
4th Amendment
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
47. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
34
Incorrigibles
F.B.I.
Appeal
48. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Chief
Retribution
Bill of Rights
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
49. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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50. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
County
Own Recognizance
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