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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. Probation
Runs juvenile hall
Arraignment
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Plea Bargain
2. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
mitigating circumstances
Enhancement
Court apointed council
contract attorneys
3. A fedral law enacted in response to terrorist attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon on September 11 -2001. The law officially titled the Uniting and Strengthening America by providing Appropriate Tools Required to intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act -
Defense Attorney
In Re Gault
USA Patriot Act
Challenge for Cause
4. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Trial Proceedures
Terrorism- Causes:
In Re Winship
Prosecutor
5. 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
Homeland security
Peremptory Challenges:
Cruz v. beto
6th Amendment
6. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
support for plea bargaining:
Preliminary Hearing
Procunier vs. Martinez
contract attorneys
7. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
support for plea bargaining:
Santobello Vs. New York
The man known as the first probation officer?
aggravating circumstances
8. Geographic area of the court
'Discover'
Venue
Discovery:
Suspended sentence
9. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Preliminary Hearing
public defender
Challenges to the array
aggravating circumstances
10. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Forfeiture laws
Bailiff
mitigating circumstances
Challenge for Cause
11. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Runs juvenile hall
Terroism threat levels
Challenge for Cause
Intermediate sentencing
12. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
indeterminate sentencing
Terroism threat levels
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
13. Made victim impact statements legal
Court Clerk
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Payne V. Tennessee
Defense Attorney
14. 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
Pre-sentence report
Voir Dire
support for plea bargaining:
List three ways a person can be released from jail
15. The lawyer representing the defendant
Plea Bargain
Defense Attorney
Goals of punishment
Venue
16. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Indictment
Trial Proceedures
17. Nominated by the President
How does an individual become a federal judge
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
circunstancial evidence
Roper v. Simmons
18. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Intermediate sentencing
Suspended sentence
Prosecutor
Arraignment
19. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Wolff v. McDaniel
Terrorism- Causes:
20. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Atkins v. Virginia
Discovery:
Hudson v. Palmer
Defense Attorney
21. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
3 level of security associated with prisons
indeterminate sentencing
7th Amendment
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
22. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Suspended sentence
Real evidence
mitigating circumstances
public defender
23. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Terrorism- Causes:
indeterminate sentencing
support for plea bargaining:
Rules of evidence
24. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
determinate sentencing
Venue
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Balancing test
25. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Intermediate sentencing
Prosecutor
Parole
How does an individual become a federal judge
26. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Stack Vs. Boyle
Prosecutor
How does an individual become a federal judge
Roper v. Simmons
27. 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
Parens patriae
Homeland security
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Balancing test
28. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Enhancement
Trial Proceedures
Homeland security
baston v. kentucky
29. 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
Court apointed council
Grand Jury
Against Plea bargaining:
Probation
30. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Homeland security
Court apointed council
Balancing test
31. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Court apointed council
mitigating circumstances
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
32. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
7th Amendment
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Procunier vs. Martinez
Intermediate sentencing
33. Review court
Criminal Complaint
Presentence investigation
Explain the difference between probation and parole
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
34. A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
Preliminary Hearing
Determinate sentencing
Judge
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
35. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Homeland security
Wolff v. McDaniel
Rules of evidence
Procunier vs. Martinez
36. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
direct evidence
Criminal Complaint
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
7th Amendment
37. 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
Presentence investigation
Plea Bargain
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Habeus corpus
38. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
In Re Winship
5th Amendment
Recidivism:
39. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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40. 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.
How does an individual become a federal judge
Pre-sentence report
Court apointed council
Parens patriae
41. 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
Prosecutor
5th Amendment
baston v. kentucky
42. 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.
Defense Attorney
No lo contendre
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Forfeiture laws
43. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Grand Jury
Aggravated Circumstances
USA Patriot Act
6th Amendment
44. Grand Jury
Wolff v. McDaniel
5th Amendment
The man known as the first probation officer?
Court Jurisdiction
45. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Voir Dire
Trial Jury
Recidivism:
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
46. 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
contract attorneys
Domestic terrorism
Mitigating Circumstances
Rules of evidence
47. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
In Re Winship
Enhancement
In Re Gault
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
48. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Hudson v. Palmer
Restitution
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Venue
49. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
Aggravated Circumstances
Probation officer
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Small Courts Claim
50. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Payne V. Tennessee
Court apointed council
Parens patriae
Explain the difference between probation and parole