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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1382
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Pretrial Hearing
State
2. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
State
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
3. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Loosely Coupled System
Information
Judicial/Legislative
4. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
All volunteers
Trials
Own Recognizance
5. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
1903
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
6. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
U.S. Federal District Courts
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
7. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
John Marshall
Worse
17 -500
County
8. State Troopers are what level of law enforcement?
Very inactive
Secret Service
State
Statue of Winchester
9. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Trial
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Pendelton Act
10. What Latin term means great paper?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Magna Carta
Change
Generalists
11. Who gave the Bureau of Investigation validity during the late 1920s?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Indeterminate Sentencing
17 -500
Hoover
12. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Probation Officer
Tribal
Superior Court
Crime Control - Due Process
13. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Parens Patriae
Lexington - Concord
Statue of Winchester
State
14. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Superior Court
17
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Court Administrator
15. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Patronage and Corruption
Special Police Force
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
16. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
King Henry II
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
None
1903
17. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Stare Decisis
First Continental Congress
Mala Prohibita
Hoover
18. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Hoover
Adversarial System
Makes deals and not go to trial
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
19. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Generalists
20. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Stare Decisis
Life
4th Amendment
John Augustus
21. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Judicial - Executive
Stare Decisis
Complaint
22. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
Parens Patriae
Misdemeanor
Original Jurisdiction
Broken Windows
23. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Continue to another date
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
George Washington - John Adams
1203(b)(1) - Felony
24. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
U.S. Marshall's
17 -500
King John
Incapaciation
25. What is meant by inferior courts?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Lower Courts
Punishment without trial
Continue to another date
26. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Discretion
U.S. Court of Appeals
90%
$1.7 million
27. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
None
Judiciary Act
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
28. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Stare Decisis
Discretion
Worse
Articles of Confederation
29. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
5th Amendment
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
17 -500
Change
30. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Very inactive
1 and 8
Continue to another date
830.1
31. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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32. What does O.R. mean?
Own Recognizance
Yes
Pretrial Hearing
Makes deals and not go to trial
33. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?
Mary Ann Crouse
State
Better
Boston Massacre
34. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Tribal
Constitutional Law
Right away
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
35. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Misdemeanor
Potential for Incarceration
Right away
Generalists
36. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Judiciary Act
All volunteers
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Court Room Work Group
37. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Tribal
State
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
38. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Misdemeanor
Better
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
1903
39. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
90 Million
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Local level
40. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
Right away
State
Article III of the Constitution
1899 Illinois
41. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
1382
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Own Recognizance
Local level
42. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?
Felony
Stare Decisis
Judicial Review
90 Million
43. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
State
Arrangement
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Miranda versus Arizona
44. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Loosely Coupled
Probation Officer
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
45. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
1903
50 - 25000
F.B.I
Prison Time - Death Sentence
46. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
National Crime Information Center
Miranda versus Arizona
Incorrigibles
47. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Generalists
Preliminary Hearing
State
48. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
14
Misdemeanor
17
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
49. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Patrick Colquhoun
Loosely Coupled System
Jurisdiction
Dual System
50. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Local level
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Information