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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
6th Amendment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Against Plea bargaining:
In Re Winship
2. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Challenges to the array
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Forfeiture laws
Determinate sentencing
3. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Prisoner rights:
Gregg V. Georgia
4. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Terrorism- Causes:
Parens patriae
Forfeiture laws
Intermediate sentencing
5. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Small Courts Claim
direct evidence
Pre-sentence report
Grand Jury
6. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Challenges to the array
Terroism threat levels
mitigating circumstances
Plea Bargain
7. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
'Discover'
aggravating circumstances
Gregg V. Georgia
restitution
8. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Discovery:
Intermediate sentencing
Hudson v. Palmer
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
9. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Cause challenges:
Trial Jury
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
How does an individual become a federal judge
10. A pre-sentence report is a legal term referring to the investigation into the history of person convicted of a crime before sentencing. Probation officer makes it.
Pre-sentence report
Challenges to the array
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Court Jurisdiction
11. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Stack Vs. Boyle
Restitution
Venue
Court apointed council
12. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Gregg V. Georgia
indeterminate sentencing
Intermediate sentencing
Against Plea bargaining:
13. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
List three ways a person can be released from jail
victim impact statements
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
14. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Plea Bargain
Judge
Cause challenges:
Hudson v. Palmer
15. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Goals of punishment
Atkins v. Virginia
Lockyer v. Andrade:
16. Grand Jury
3 level of security associated with prisons
Against Plea bargaining:
In Re Gault
5th Amendment
17. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Bailiff
Cruz v. beto
Criminal Complaint
In Re Winship
18. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Real evidence
Arraignment
Prisoner rights:
3 level of security associated with prisons
19. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Probation
Terrorism- Causes:
indeterminate sentencing
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
20. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Balancing test
Homeland security
Parolve v. probation
21. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
aggravating circumstances
Probation officer
Atkins v. Virginia
22. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
Aggravated Circumstances
Stack Vs. Boyle
Parolve v. probation
Defense Attorney
23. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Bailiff
Suspended sentence
Balancing test
public defender
24. Held that when a juvenile is charged with an act taht would be a crime if committed by an adult - every element of the offense must be proved beyond reasonable doubt
In Re Winship
Real evidence
Discovery:
Parole
25. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Wolff v. McDaniel
support for plea bargaining:
Voir Dire
Venue
26. The right to challenge a potential juror without discling the reason for the challenge. Used to eliminate juries individuals who although they express no bias are thought to be capable of swaying the jury in an undesirable way
Criminal Complaint
Peremptory Challenges:
Against Plea bargaining:
Probation
27. A goal of criminal sentencing that attempts to make the victim whole again. a court requirement that an accused or convicted offender pay money or provide services to the victim of the cimre or provie services to the community
direct evidence
baston v. kentucky
Prisoner rights:
restitution
28. Jury trial in civil cases
7th Amendment
Balancing test
Restitution
Plea Bargain
29. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Court apointed council
aggravating circumstances
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Real evidence
30. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Goals of punishment
Homeland security
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Rules of evidence
31. John Augustus
Forfeiture laws
Trial Jury
The man known as the first probation officer?
Prosecutor
32. Investigation into the history of the person convicted of a crime to see if tehere are an extenuating circumstances which would ameliorate or increase sentence
Mitigating Circumstances
Presentence investigation
Bailiff
Prosecutor
33. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Prisoner rights:
Discovery:
'Discover'
Roper v. Simmons
34. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
No lo contendre
Parens patriae
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Morissey v. Brewer
35. Inmates have to be given a reasonable opportunity to pursue their religious faiths - also visits can be banned is such visits constitute threats to society
Grand Jury
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
direct evidence
Cruz v. beto
36. A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
Prosecutor
Cruz v. beto
Parolve v. probation
Judge
37. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Morissey v. Brewer
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Wolff v. McDaniel
Voir Dire
38. Things that add on to sentencing
Against Plea bargaining:
circunstancial evidence
Enhancement
Mitigating Circumstances
39. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
No lo contendre
Gregg V. Georgia
Intermediate sentencing
List three ways a person can be released from jail
40. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Small Courts Claim
Defense Attorney
Cruz v. beto
Indictment
41. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Stack Vs. Boyle
Bailiff
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
42. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Parole
Challenge for Cause
Mitigating Circumstances
Trial Proceedures
43. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Rules of evidence
Probation
Challenges to the array
Cruz v. beto
44. Full time- salaried
5th Amendment
Indictment
public defender
Terrorism- Causes:
45. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
Criminal Complaint
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Against Plea bargaining:
Prosecutor
46. Geographic area of the court
Grand Jury
Court apointed council
Probation officer
Venue
47. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Voir Dire
Bailiff
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
48. Officers of the probation office of a court. Probation officer duties include conducting presentence investigations - preparing presentence reports on convicted defendants - and supervising released defendants.
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Aggravated Circumstances
Probation officer
Stack Vs. Boyle
49. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
In Re Winship
Probation officer
Habeus corpus
Aggravated Circumstances
50. An officer appointed by the judges of the court to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court - maintain court records - handle financial matters - and provide other administrative support to the court.
Domestic terrorism
Court Clerk
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Explain the difference between probation and parole