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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?
None
F.B.I.
Continue to another date
Discretion
2. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
Tribal
Patrick Colquhoun
Aggravating - Mitigating
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
3. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
English Common Law
1903
4. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
1903
John Augustus
Lexington - Concord
5. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Possecomintatus
830.1
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Article III of the Constitution
6. How long is a federal judge's term of office for?
Punishment without trial
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
Life
7. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Sworn - Non-sworn
Assistant District Attorneys
Probation Officer
8. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
17 -500
Assistant District Attorneys
U.S. Court of Appeals
King Henry II
9. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
$1.7 million
Judiciary Act
90%
Judicial - Executive
10. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
14
Chief
Mala Prohibita
Serpico
11. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Statue of Winchester
Lower Courts
Tribal
Local level
12. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
County
Bench Trial
6th Amendment
Preliminary Hearing
13. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Worse
Own Recognizance
Nolo Contendre
Incapaciation
14. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
14th Amendment
$1.7 million
Patronage and Corruption
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
15. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Information
Sir Robert Peel
Assistant District Attorneys
85%
16. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?
Stare Decisis
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
1382
English Common Law
17. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Yes
$1.7 million
5th Amendment
John Augustus
18. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
1383
Sheriff or Shireeve
Complaint
F.B.I.
19. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
F.B.I.
Trial
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Presentence Court Report
20. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Infraction
Adversarial System
Original Jurisdiction
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
21. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Appeal
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
22. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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23. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Special Police Force
F.B.I
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
24. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Presentence Court Report
Sworn - Non-sworn
4th Amendment
17 -500
25. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
1 and 8
Precedent
4th Amendment
F.B.I
26. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Stars
John Marshall
Sir Robert Peel
27. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Due Process
U.S. Court of Appeals
1 and 8
Punishment without trial
28. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
F.B.I
Secret Service
Right away
29. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Secret Service
Future laws not passed yet
Marbury versus Madison
30. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
6th Amendment
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
31. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Community Orientated Policing Era
Crime Control - Due Process
32. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Life
U.S. Court of Appeals
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
33. What does the U.S. Supreme Court have regarding what cases to hear?
Boston Massacre
Discretion
State Supreme Court
Court Administrator
34. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
John Marshall
34
John Augustus
Constitutional Law
35. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Court Administrator
Information
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Attorney General
36. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Misdemeanor
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Preliminary Hearing
Court Administrator
37. What is the name for a felony complaint?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Crime Control Due Process
Information
Bench Trial
38. What do bills of attainer relate to?
National Crime Information Center
Court Room Work Group
Continue to another date
Punishment without trial
39. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Original Jurisdiction
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
40. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
Due Process
Appeals
Arrangement
English Common Law
41. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
5th Amendment
Nolo Contendre
42. What law further defined the role and make up of the U.S. Supreme court?
4th Amendment
Judiciary Act
8th Amendment
State
43. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
1 and 8
Loosely Coupled
U.S. Constitution
Judiciary Act
44. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Parens Patriae
Statue of Winchester
National Crime Information Center
Precedent
45. What is a crime publishable by six months to one yer in jail - fines - or probation?
4th Amendment
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Misdemeanor
Loosely Coupled
46. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Government Attorney
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Continue to another date
John Marshall
47. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Boston Massacre
Discretion
1903
48. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
County
Attorney General
Incapaciation
Superior Court
49. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
First Continental Congress
Pendelton Act
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Loosely Coupled System
50. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Judicial/Legislative
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
Marbury versus Madison
Broken Windows