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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
direct evidence
Restitution
Trial Jury
Cause challenges:
2. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Discovery:
Procunier vs. Martinez
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
3. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Suspended sentence
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Small Courts Claim
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
4. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Indictment
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
'Discover'
Voir Dire
5. 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
Peremptory Challenges:
'Discover'
Real evidence
Goals of punishment
6. A model of criminal punishment in which an offender is given a fixed term of imprisonment that they may be reduced by good time or gain taim. all offendors convicted of the same crime will reciee the same punishment
Parole
Roper v. Simmons
In Re Winship
determinate sentencing
7. Prisoners challenged the constitutionality of state regulations covering censorship of prisoner mail on the grounds that they violated the prisoners free-speech rights. REstrictions on speech must be justified as the necessity for security and the ru
Terroism threat levels
Procunier vs. Martinez
Court apointed council
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
8. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Stack Vs. Boyle
public defender
How does an individual become a federal judge
9. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Parole
How does an individual become a federal judge
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Homeland security
10. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Wolff v. McDaniel
Intermediate sentencing
Arraignment
Goals of punishment
11. 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.
Domestic terrorism
Homeland security
Prisoner rights:
Challenges to the array
12. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Forfeiture laws
Parens patriae
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Enhancement
13. 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
Goals of punishment
Morissey v. Brewer
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Parens patriae
14. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Peremptory Challenges:
Indictment
Voir Dire
Criminal Complaint
15. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Payne V. Tennessee
Wolff v. McDaniel
Prisoner rights:
Court Jurisdiction
16. Grand Jury
Recidivism:
Gregg V. Georgia
contract attorneys
5th Amendment
17. 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
Cruz v. beto
Plea Bargain
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
5th Amendment
18. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
Parolve v. probation
3 level of security associated with prisons
Hudson v. Palmer
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
19. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Atkins v. Virginia
Stack Vs. Boyle
Preliminary Hearing
Parolve v. probation
20. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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21. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Mitigating Circumstances
support for plea bargaining:
How does an individual become a federal judge
Real evidence
22. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Challenges to the array
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Indictment
23. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
Court Jurisdiction
Roper v. Simmons
Prosecutor
Indictment
24. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
restitution
mitigating circumstances
Challenges to the array
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
25. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
baston v. kentucky
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Challenges to the array
Criminal Complaint
26. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
Recidivism:
3 level of security associated with prisons
Determinate sentencing
In Re Winship
27. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
Probation
determinate sentencing
Court apointed council
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
28. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
Restitution
6th Amendment
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Trial Jury
29. 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
Habeus corpus
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Rules of evidence
30. 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
Roper v. Simmons
Against Plea bargaining:
victim impact statements
indeterminate sentencing
31. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Recidivism:
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Suspended sentence
Trial Proceedures
32. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
mitigating circumstances
Parolve v. probation
Challenge for Cause
Court Jurisdiction
33. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Intermediate sentencing
aggravating circumstances
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Habeus corpus
34. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
Against Plea bargaining:
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
direct evidence
Hudson v. Palmer
35. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Santobello Vs. New York
Atkins v. Virginia
Prisoner rights:
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
36. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Real evidence
Probation officer
Peremptory Challenges:
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
37. Things that add on to sentencing
Probation
Forfeiture laws
Enhancement
Atkins v. Virginia
38. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Enhancement
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Judge
In Re Winship
39. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
circunstancial evidence
Prosecutor
Intermediate sentencing
Real evidence
40. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
Prisoner rights:
Against Plea bargaining:
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Discovery:
41. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Hudson v. Palmer
Wolff v. McDaniel
Explain the difference between probation and parole
42. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Probation officer
Bailiff
Gregg V. Georgia
public defender
43. 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.
7th Amendment
Small Courts Claim
Pre-sentence report
Santobello Vs. New York
44. Least used
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Suspended sentence
contract attorneys
Lockyer v. Andrade:
45. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Against Plea bargaining:
In Re Winship
46. 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
Court apointed council
Against Plea bargaining:
Discovery:
support for plea bargaining:
47. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Wolff v. McDaniel
Lockyer v. Andrade:
48. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Probation
How does an individual become a federal judge
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
49. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Grand Jury
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
In Re Winship
Aggravated Circumstances
50. Decides guilt or innocence
Trial Jury
Stack Vs. Boyle
Goals of punishment
support for plea bargaining: