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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. The authorized seizure of money - negotiable instruments - securities - or other things of value. Under federal antidrug laws - judicial representatives are authorized to seize all cash and goods.
direct evidence
Forfeiture laws
circunstancial evidence
Court Clerk
2. Review court
Parolve v. probation
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
'Discover'
determinate sentencing
3. Things that add on to sentencing
Determinate sentencing
Parole
Enhancement
Real evidence
4. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Challenges to the array
Discovery:
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Bailiff
5. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
indeterminate sentencing
Court Clerk
Trial Proceedures
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
6. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
Probation
Runs juvenile hall
Voir Dire
3 level of security associated with prisons
7. Nominated by the President
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Probation officer
How does an individual become a federal judge
contract attorneys
8. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Voir Dire
baston v. kentucky
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
victim impact statements
9. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
mitigating circumstances
aggravating circumstances
Prosecutor
Aggravated Circumstances
10. A legal term for judges delaying of the sentence after they have been found guilty - in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation
No lo contendre
Suspended sentence
Presentence investigation
victim impact statements
11. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
mitigating circumstances
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
public defender
Venue
12. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
public defender
6th Amendment
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Rules of evidence
13. Full time- salaried
Cause challenges:
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Terroism threat levels
public defender
14. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
Forfeiture laws
Peremptory Challenges:
Determinate sentencing
Preliminary Hearing
15. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
Preliminary Hearing
Pre-sentence report
No lo contendre
circunstancial evidence
16. Grand Jury
mitigating circumstances
Hudson v. Palmer
Challenge for Cause
5th Amendment
17. Less courts - less judges - prompt and final disposition of most cases - reduces time/cost in jail - reduces time spent free on bail- dangerous - serious offenders move more quickly into rehab - counseling - etc. - assures that the guilty will not be
Atkins v. Virginia
Intermediate sentencing
Recidivism:
support for plea bargaining:
18. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
No lo contendre
Indictment
19. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
6th Amendment
The man known as the first probation officer?
direct evidence
Habeus corpus
20. Held that juveniles accused of crimes in a delinquency proceeding must be afforded many of the same due process rights as adults - such as the right to timely notification of the cahrges - the right to confront witnesses - the right against self-incr
Payne V. Tennessee
In Re Gault
aggravating circumstances
Suspended sentence
21. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Court Jurisdiction
Habeus corpus
determinate sentencing
Court apointed council
22. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
mitigating circumstances
Terrorism- Causes:
Pre-sentence report
'Discover'
23. Geographic area of the court
Venue
baston v. kentucky
7th Amendment
USA Patriot Act
24. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
Suspended sentence
Peremptory Challenges:
Pre-sentence report
Probation
25. 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
Runs juvenile hall
Criminal Complaint
Challenges to the array
restitution
26. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Challenges to the array
contract attorneys
Suspended sentence
Prosecutor
27. The lawyer representing the defendant
Court Jurisdiction
Voir Dire
aggravating circumstances
Defense Attorney
28. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
Roper v. Simmons
6th Amendment
Real evidence
List three ways a person can be released from jail
29. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Criminal Complaint
Homeland security
Gregg V. Georgia
Lockyer v. Andrade:
30. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Plea Bargain
Small Courts Claim
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
31. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Restitution
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Homeland security
32. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates
determinate sentencing
circunstancial evidence
Restitution
Lockyer v. Andrade:
33. Retain 1st amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner- have rights - much the same as people who are not incarcerated. Conditional rather than absolute rights. The balancing test.
Prisoner rights:
Recidivism:
Voir Dire
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
34. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Morissey v. Brewer
circunstancial evidence
Indictment
Real evidence
35. A common law principle that allows the state to assume a parental role and to take custody of a child when he or she becomes delinquent - is abandoned or is need of care taht the natural parents are unable or unwilling to provide
6th Amendment
Parens patriae
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Parole
36. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Hudson v. Palmer
Probation officer
In Re Gault
Grand Jury
37. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Santobello Vs. New York
Real evidence
Probation officer
Rules of evidence
38. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
Habeus corpus
7th Amendment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
direct evidence
39. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
Grand Jury
Cause challenges:
Gregg V. Georgia
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
40. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Parens patriae
Morissey v. Brewer
Lockyer v. Andrade:
In Re Gault
41. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Trial Proceedures
Homeland security
Intermediate sentencing
Santobello Vs. New York
42. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Gregg V. Georgia
Rules of evidence
Explain the difference between probation and parole
contract attorneys
43. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Bailiff
Indictment
Probation officer
Presentence investigation
44. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
Enhancement
Forfeiture laws
Suspended sentence
Parolve v. probation
45. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Probation
Gregg V. Georgia
indeterminate sentencing
public defender
46. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Peremptory Challenges:
Wolff v. McDaniel
In Re Gault
Enhancement
47. Criminals recieve lighter/easier punishments- nota true sentence- endangers the correct legal outcome. It's coercion- bluffing- violation of human rights- prosecutors bluff and defendants plead to things they didn't do out of fear
7th Amendment
Arraignment
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Against Plea bargaining:
48. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Homeland security
Venue
Small Courts Claim
Explain the difference between probation and parole
49. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
7th Amendment
victim impact statements
indeterminate sentencing
Preliminary Hearing
50. 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.
Roper v. Simmons
Probation officer
circunstancial evidence
Runs juvenile hall