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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. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Challenge for Cause
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Discovery:
Atkins v. Virginia
2. Probation
Grand Jury
Payne V. Tennessee
Rules of evidence
Runs juvenile hall
3. Grand Jury
5th Amendment
Trial Jury
Criminal Complaint
Indictment
4. 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
Parolve v. probation
Domestic terrorism
Parens patriae
Defense Attorney
5. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Determinate sentencing
Probation officer
Grand Jury
contract attorneys
6. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
victim impact statements
Prisoner rights:
Judge
Against Plea bargaining:
7. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Stack Vs. Boyle
Roper v. Simmons
Grand Jury
8. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Intermediate sentencing
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Restitution
Challenge for Cause
9. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
6th Amendment
Judge
Court Jurisdiction
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
10. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Small Courts Claim
contract attorneys
victim impact statements
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
11. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Rules of evidence
Homeland security
Intermediate sentencing
Real evidence
12. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Prosecutor
indeterminate sentencing
Peremptory Challenges:
Determinate sentencing
13. Decides guilt or innocence
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
How does an individual become a federal judge
Trial Jury
Presentence investigation
14. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Trial Proceedures
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Intermediate sentencing
Prisoner rights:
15. 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.
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Parens patriae
Probation officer
16. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Small Courts Claim
Rules of evidence
Preliminary Hearing
Habeus corpus
17. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Parole
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Probation
18. 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
Forfeiture laws
Recidivism:
Suspended sentence
Criminal Complaint
19. John Augustus
The man known as the first probation officer?
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Suspended sentence
Parens patriae
20. 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.
USA Patriot Act
Habeus corpus
Terrorism- Causes:
Prisoner rights:
21. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Arraignment
Determinate sentencing
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Lockyer v. Andrade:
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
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
determinate sentencing
In Re Winship
Stack Vs. Boyle
23. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Challenge for Cause
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Mitigating Circumstances
Recidivism:
24. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
The man known as the first probation officer?
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Bailiff
Probation
25. 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
Mitigating Circumstances
Balancing test
Atkins v. Virginia
Cause challenges:
26. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
Goals of punishment
baston v. kentucky
Payne V. Tennessee
Cause challenges:
27. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Court apointed council
Terroism threat levels
'Discover'
Determinate sentencing
28. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Pre-sentence report
Court Jurisdiction
Trial Jury
baston v. kentucky
29. Jury trial in civil cases
Morissey v. Brewer
7th Amendment
public defender
Payne V. Tennessee
30. Nominated by the President
victim impact statements
Rules of evidence
5th Amendment
How does an individual become a federal judge
31. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Recidivism:
Bailiff
7th Amendment
Enhancement
32. Review court
6th Amendment
Habeus corpus
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Goals of punishment
33. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Defense Attorney
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Lockyer v. Andrade:
34. 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 -
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Small Courts Claim
USA Patriot Act
Venue
35. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
3 level of security associated with prisons
Homeland security
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Restitution
36. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates
circunstancial evidence
No lo contendre
Parens patriae
Judge
37. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
Prisoner rights:
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Probation officer
Mitigating Circumstances
38. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
In Re Gault
5th Amendment
public defender
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
39. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Restitution
baston v. kentucky
Rules of evidence
Probation
40. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
direct evidence
aggravating circumstances
Runs juvenile hall
Determinate sentencing
41. 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
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
3 level of security associated with prisons
Voir Dire
restitution
42. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Judge
Parens patriae
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Real evidence
43. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
direct evidence
mitigating circumstances
Forfeiture laws
Goals of punishment
44. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Plea Bargain
Determinate sentencing
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Enhancement
45. Geographic area of the court
Trial Proceedures
support for plea bargaining:
Venue
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
46. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Plea Bargain
Santobello Vs. New York
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Procunier vs. Martinez
47. Made victim impact statements legal
Payne V. Tennessee
Venue
Wolff v. McDaniel
In Re Winship
48. 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
Goals of punishment
Plea Bargain
Challenge for Cause
Domestic terrorism
49. An officer appointed by the judges of the court to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court - maintain court records - handle financial matters - and provide other administrative support to the court.
Atkins v. Virginia
Court Clerk
Intermediate sentencing
List three ways a person can be released from jail
50. 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
victim impact statements
Challenge for Cause
Peremptory Challenges:
In Re Winship