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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Felony
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
2. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Potential for Incarceration
Patrick Colquhoun
Court Administrator
First Continental Congress
3. What Latin term means - 'father or parent of the country?'
Parens Patriae
Magna Carta
F.B.I.
Jurisdiction
4. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Court Administrator
5th Amendment
Discretion
Community Orientated Policing Era
5. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Mary Ann Crouse
Serpico
Adversarial System
Special Police Force
6. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
14
Future laws not passed yet
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Original Jurisdiction
7. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
George Washington - John Adams
Intermediate Courts
State
U.S. Federal District Courts
8. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
85%
Court Room Work Group
9. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Courts
Incorrigibles
F.B.I
Lexington - Concord
10. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
F.B.I
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
39
11. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Patronage and Corruption
Complaint
Arrangement
Sir Robert Peel
12. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
State
Right away
1383
Patrick Colquhoun
13. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
5th Amendment
Broken Windows
U.S. Postal Inspectors
14. What are the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country?
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15. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
50 - 25000
Trials
16. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
Judicial Review
County
Loosely Coupled System
Appeal
17. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Hoover
Superior Court
Continue to another date
Misdemeanor
18. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?
Vigilantes
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
4th Amendment
Worse
19. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
39
90 Million
U.S. Marshall's
Court Administrator
20. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Community Sensitive Programs
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Mala Prohibita
Nolo Contendre
21. Where does a felony case begin?
Patronage and Corruption
Articles of Confederation
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
22. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Felony
All volunteers
Aggravating - Mitigating
Community Orientated Policing Era
23. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
Mala Prohibita
Vigilantes
Formal Probation
Mala en Se
24. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Article III of the Constitution
25. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Information
Dual System
Generalists
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
26. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Chief
Local level
First Continental Congress
27. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
Courts
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Superior Court
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
28. What does an aggravating factor make the report?
Government Attorney
Adversarial System
Worse
Mary Ann Crouse
29. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
F.B.I.
Jurisdiction
U.S. Court of Appeals
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
30. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Community Sensitive Programs
State
1899 Illinois
State Supreme Court
31. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Preliminary Hearing
Pendelton Act
State/Local Court System
4th Amendment
32. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Judiciary Act
Discretion
Articles of Confederation
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
33. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
Broken Windows
6th Amendment
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Lexington - Concord
34. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Serpico
Yes
Mala Prohibita
George Washington - John Adams
35. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
4th Amendment
8th Amendment
U.S. Postal Inspectors
1 and 8
36. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?
Formal Probation
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Serpico
Precedent
37. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Trials
The Family Model
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
38. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
Sir Robert Peel
Generalists
King John
1903
39. The three federal courts are known as what?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
County
17 -500
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
40. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
1977 Dixon Bill
Better
Conditional Sentence
41. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
Better
Due Process Phase
17
Patronage
42. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
State
Own Recognizance
Intermediate Courts
County
43. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Punishment without trial
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Stars
1383
44. What is the Latin term that means evil or bad in itself?
English Common Law
Mala en Se
King John
Right away
45. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
4th Amendment
State Supreme Court
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Makes deals and not go to trial
46. What is discovery?
Patronage and Corruption
State
Evidence
Patrick Colquhoun
47. Stare Decisis has evolved into what concept?
Parens Patriae
17 -500
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Precedent
48. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Preliminary Hearing
830.1
Local level
Courts
49. The California state highway patrol is an example of what type of law enforcement agency?
State
Conditional Sentence
State/Local Court System
1383
50. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Magna Carta
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Loosely Coupled
5th Amendment