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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does ex-post facto law relate to?






2. What are the two types of defense attorneys?






3. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?






4. What does an aggravating factor make the report?






5. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?






6. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?






7. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?






8. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?






9. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?






10. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?






11. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?






12. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?






13. Who is referred to as the father of probation?






14. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?






15. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?






16. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'






17. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?






18. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?






19. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?






20. What is another term for informal probation?






21. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?






22. What is the name for a juvenile complaint?






23. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?






24. What is the average budget of a local law enforcement agency?






25. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?






26. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?






27. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?






28. What crimes is the death penalty used for?






29. What does a preliminary hearing determine?






30. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?






31. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?






32. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?






33. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?


34. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?






35. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?






36. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?






37. How many cases go to the local court level each year?






38. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?






39. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






40. How many states use the death penalty?






41. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?






42. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?






43. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?






44. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?






45. What do bills of attainer relate to?






46. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?






47. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?






48. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?






49. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?






50. The Federal Court system was created through what?