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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
Pre-sentence report
Court Clerk
direct evidence
circunstancial evidence
2. Geographic area of the court
Venue
Parole
Indictment
public defender
3. 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
Criminal Complaint
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
restitution
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
4. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Aggravated Circumstances
Hudson v. Palmer
Balancing test
determinate sentencing
5. 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
Restitution
In Re Gault
aggravating circumstances
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
6. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Trial Proceedures
Plea Bargain
7. Grand Jury
5th Amendment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Defense Attorney
Real evidence
8. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
'Discover'
Venue
Intermediate sentencing
Parolve v. probation
9. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
USA Patriot Act
In Re Winship
Preliminary Hearing
Trial Jury
10. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
support for plea bargaining:
Rules of evidence
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Indictment
11. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Restitution
determinate sentencing
victim impact statements
Discovery:
12. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
Prisoner rights:
Roper v. Simmons
Court Clerk
Criminal Complaint
13. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Santobello Vs. New York
Gregg V. Georgia
Discovery:
Parolve v. probation
14. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Challenge for Cause
Goals of punishment
aggravating circumstances
Procunier vs. Martinez
15. 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.
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Domestic terrorism
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Recidivism:
16. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Plea Bargain
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Cruz v. beto
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
17. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Voir Dire
Prosecutor
Procunier vs. Martinez
How does an individual become a federal judge
18. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
victim impact statements
support for plea bargaining:
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
19. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Real evidence
USA Patriot Act
In Re Gault
Challenge for Cause
20. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Court Jurisdiction
Intermediate sentencing
3 level of security associated with prisons
Indictment
21. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Preliminary Hearing
Probation
Homeland security
contract attorneys
22. 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
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
determinate sentencing
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Explain the difference between probation and parole
23. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
3 level of security associated with prisons
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Prosecutor
24. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
mitigating circumstances
Against Plea bargaining:
Trial Proceedures
restitution
25. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Criminal Complaint
6th Amendment
Habeus corpus
Peremptory Challenges:
26. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Forfeiture laws
Trial Proceedures
Habeus corpus
Indictment
27. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
The man known as the first probation officer?
No lo contendre
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Parens patriae
28. Things that add on to sentencing
Enhancement
3 level of security associated with prisons
public defender
Court Jurisdiction
29. The unlawful use of force or violence by an individual or a group that is based and operatues entirely within the U.S. and its territories - acts without foreign direction and directs its activites agaits elements of the us government or population
Domestic terrorism
'Discover'
Runs juvenile hall
Recidivism:
30. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
Payne V. Tennessee
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Challenge for Cause
31. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Atkins v. Virginia
Mitigating Circumstances
6th Amendment
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
32. 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
Hudson v. Palmer
Forfeiture laws
Indictment
Suspended sentence
33. 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
Balancing test
Suspended sentence
Against Plea bargaining:
Real evidence
34. 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
Pre-sentence report
Recidivism:
Parolve v. probation
35. Review court
circunstancial evidence
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
'Discover'
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
36. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Indictment
Balancing test
Probation officer
Real evidence
37. 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.
In Re Winship
5th Amendment
Prisoner rights:
Aggravated Circumstances
38. A principle developed by the courts and applied to the corrections arena by pell v. procunier that attempts to weigh the rights of an individual as guaranteed by the Constituion - against the authority of states of make laws or to otherwise restrict
Balancing test
5th Amendment
mitigating circumstances
Wolff v. McDaniel
39. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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40. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
In Re Winship
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Real evidence
aggravating circumstances
41. 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
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Cruz v. beto
6th Amendment
Gregg V. Georgia
42. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Domestic terrorism
Venue
43. Least used
determinate sentencing
Goals of punishment
restitution
contract attorneys
44. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Against Plea bargaining:
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
45. John Augustus
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Homeland security
The man known as the first probation officer?
46. Jury trial in civil cases
Gregg V. Georgia
7th Amendment
Trial Jury
direct evidence
47. Probation
Intermediate sentencing
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Parole
Runs juvenile hall
48. 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.
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
The man known as the first probation officer?
Challenge for Cause
6th Amendment
49. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates
Forfeiture laws
direct evidence
circunstancial evidence
Mitigating Circumstances
50. 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
Domestic terrorism
aggravating circumstances
Parens patriae
Preliminary Hearing