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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Enhancement
Probation
Indictment
2. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Goals of punishment
Terrorism- Causes:
Mitigating Circumstances
Rules of evidence
3. 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
mitigating circumstances
5th Amendment
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
4. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates
Court Clerk
Defense Attorney
circunstancial evidence
Payne V. Tennessee
5. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
6. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Intermediate sentencing
5th Amendment
Peremptory Challenges:
Real evidence
7. 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
Rules of evidence
Suspended sentence
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
In Re Gault
8. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
mitigating circumstances
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Parens patriae
Payne V. Tennessee
9. 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.
Preliminary Hearing
Parole
Wolff v. McDaniel
Probation officer
10. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Indictment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Court Clerk
Discovery:
11. Probation
Cruz v. beto
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Runs juvenile hall
12. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Roper v. Simmons
Mitigating Circumstances
13. 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
Plea Bargain
Cruz v. beto
Court Jurisdiction
Suspended sentence
14. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
Aggravated Circumstances
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
aggravating circumstances
Small Courts Claim
15. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Wolff v. McDaniel
Criminal Complaint
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Enhancement
16. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
Probation officer
Preliminary Hearing
indeterminate sentencing
Judge
17. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
public defender
Restitution
Small Courts Claim
aggravating circumstances
18. Excusing a juror from a trial for a stated - specific reason - such as the juror knows the parties or witnesses in a case. Each side has an unlimited number of challenges for cause.
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Parolve v. probation
'Discover'
Challenge for Cause
19. A writ whcih requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court. This ensure that a prisoner can be released form unlawful detention.
Suspended sentence
Habeus corpus
direct evidence
Cause challenges:
20. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
support for plea bargaining:
Homeland security
Mitigating Circumstances
Balancing test
21. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Probation officer
Wolff v. McDaniel
Real evidence
aggravating circumstances
22. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
Gregg V. Georgia
Santobello Vs. New York
Challenges to the array
6th Amendment
23. Least used
contract attorneys
Intermediate sentencing
Pre-sentence report
indeterminate sentencing
24. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Prosecutor
Peremptory Challenges:
7th Amendment
Plea Bargain
25. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
3 level of security associated with prisons
aggravating circumstances
Probation officer
Domestic terrorism
26. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Cause challenges:
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Probation officer
Small Courts Claim
27. Made victim impact statements legal
Terrorism- Causes:
Parens patriae
No lo contendre
Payne V. Tennessee
28. Jury trial in civil cases
No lo contendre
Criminal Complaint
7th Amendment
direct evidence
29. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Morissey v. Brewer
Recidivism:
Pre-sentence report
30. Fee based on state rate
Habeus corpus
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Court apointed council
Defense Attorney
31. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
Real evidence
Cause challenges:
7th Amendment
Parolve v. probation
32. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
No lo contendre
indeterminate sentencing
Parole
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
33. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Parole
Explain the difference between probation and parole
restitution
Court Jurisdiction
34. 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
Enhancement
restitution
Plea Bargain
Runs juvenile hall
35. Things that add on to sentencing
Roper v. Simmons
Santobello Vs. New York
Enhancement
Trial Jury
36. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
contract attorneys
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
public defender
Atkins v. Virginia
37. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Terroism threat levels
USA Patriot Act
Arraignment
Court apointed council
38. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
Payne V. Tennessee
Roper v. Simmons
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Wolff v. McDaniel
39. The act of a person repeating of an undesirable behavior after thay have either experienced negative consequences of that behavior or have been treated or trained to extinguish that behavior.
Recidivism:
Forfeiture laws
6th Amendment
Gregg V. Georgia
40. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
Venue
victim impact statements
Restitution
baston v. kentucky
41. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Real evidence
In Re Gault
No lo contendre
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
42. Full time- salaried
No lo contendre
Gregg V. Georgia
Restitution
public defender
43. John Augustus
The man known as the first probation officer?
public defender
Homeland security
Recidivism:
44. (law) a conditional release from imprisonment that entitiles the person to serve the remainder of the sentence outside the prison as long as the terms of release are complied with
Forfeiture laws
indeterminate sentencing
Parole
determinate sentencing
45. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
direct evidence
5th Amendment
No lo contendre
Presentence investigation
46. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Bailiff
Runs juvenile hall
Court Clerk
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
47. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
aggravating circumstances
support for plea bargaining:
Presentence investigation
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
48. 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
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
In Re Gault
7th Amendment
Trial Proceedures
49. 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
Arraignment
Against Plea bargaining:
victim impact statements
7th Amendment
50. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Terrorism- Causes:
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Recidivism: