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Criminal Justice 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Body - Amendments
Sir Robert Peel
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
6th Amendment
2. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
Possecomintatus
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Trials
Evaluation
3. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
F.B.I.
None
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
4. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Appeal
Court Administrator
1382
The Penal Code
5. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
6th Amendment
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
14
Appeal
6. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Future laws not passed yet
Superior Court
First Continental Congress
1977 Dixon Bill
7. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Special Police Force
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
8. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
Judicial Review
Life
Discretion
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
9. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Chief
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Marbury versus Madison
Prison Time - Death Sentence
10. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Felony
Jurisdiction
Makes deals and not go to trial
Appeals
11. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Broken Windows
John Marshall
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Pendelton Act
12. What does O.R. mean?
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Own Recognizance
State Supreme Court
Ah Peen
13. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Future laws not passed yet
Court Administrator
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
14. Who said - 'The police are the public and the public are the police'?
Sir Robert Peel
Indeterminate Sentencing
Patrick Colquhoun
Evaluation
15. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
Generalists
Sworn - Non-sworn
Special Police Force
16. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Continue to another date
Trial
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Due Process
17. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Court Room Work Group
1903
8th Amendment
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
18. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Felony
Sir Robert Peel
Pendelton Act
The Family Model
19. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Appeal
Future laws not passed yet
6th Amendment
U.S. Postal Inspectors
20. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
14
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Complaint
Pretrial Hearing
21. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Precedent
Deterrence
Possecomintatus
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
22. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Judicial Review
39
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Dual System
23. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Stars
English Common Law
State/Local Court System
24. In what year and state was the country's first dedicated juvenile justice system and court legally established?
Community Orientated Policing Era
1899 Illinois
39
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
25. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
90 Million
Evidence
Preliminary Hearing
26. How is a jury panel selected?
Marbury versus Madison
State
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
U.S. Federal District Courts
27. What is an offense that consists of illegal conduct but no jail time?
Due Process Phase
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Infraction
28. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Stare Decisis
Trial
Information
Court Room Work Group
29. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
Indeterminate Sentencing
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
King John
Complaint
30. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Retribution
Deterrence
Courts
85%
31. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
17
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Local level
John Marshall
32. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Patronage and Corruption
Preliminary Hearing
33. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Continue to another date
Adversarial System
Petition
All volunteers
34. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
1977 Dixon Bill
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Incorrigibles
Courts
35. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
34
4th Amendment
The Penal Code
36. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Information
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
First Continental Congress
37. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Crime Control - Due Process
Tribal
Indeterminate Sentencing
17 -500
38. UCRS and NIBRS recieve information from how many agencies?
17 -500
Retribution
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
King Henry II
39. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Original Jurisdiction
Patronage and Corruption
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
40. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?
Superior Court
The Family Model
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Attorney General
41. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Article III of the Constitution
17 -500
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Crime Control Due Process
42. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
King John
Stars
Government Attorney
Body - Amendments
43. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Continue to another date
State Supreme Court
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Parens Patriae
44. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Very inactive
Boston Massacre
Yes
45. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
All volunteers
Very inactive
Bill of Rights
Sir Robert Peel
46. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Original Jurisdiction
Probation Officer
Vigilantes
Judicial Review
47. Where does a felony case begin?
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
F.B.I.
U.S. Constitution
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
48. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Continue to another date
All volunteers
Aggravating - Mitigating
Complaint
49. When a court has control or authority over certain matters/issues - what is it called?
Original Jurisdiction
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Retribution
Jurisdiction
50. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
Local level
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Community Orientated Policing Era
U.S. Federal District Courts