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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. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Bailiff
Rules of evidence
Preliminary Hearing
2. 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.
Discovery:
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Probation officer
Trial Proceedures
3. Grand Jury
Procunier vs. Martinez
Real evidence
Morissey v. Brewer
5th Amendment
4. Things that add on to sentencing
Enhancement
Intermediate sentencing
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Restitution
5. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Probation officer
USA Patriot Act
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
6. 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
Intermediate sentencing
direct evidence
Cruz v. beto
Santobello Vs. New York
7. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Discovery:
Parole
5th Amendment
Explain the difference between probation and parole
8. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
direct evidence
Real evidence
No lo contendre
Wolff v. McDaniel
9. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Balancing test
Arraignment
6th Amendment
10. 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
Stack Vs. Boyle
Peremptory Challenges:
Defense Attorney
Aggravated Circumstances
11. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Discovery:
Court apointed council
Gregg V. Georgia
Judge
12. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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13. Jury trial in civil cases
Runs juvenile hall
Stack Vs. Boyle
7th Amendment
Procunier vs. Martinez
14. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Voir Dire
Payne V. Tennessee
indeterminate sentencing
15. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Challenges to the array
7th Amendment
Morissey v. Brewer
16. 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
determinate sentencing
Parole
Trial Jury
aggravating circumstances
17. Made victim impact statements legal
circunstancial evidence
Santobello Vs. New York
Payne V. Tennessee
Wolff v. McDaniel
18. 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
Rules of evidence
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
'Discover'
Presentence investigation
19. The lawyer representing the defendant
How does an individual become a federal judge
Prosecutor
Defense Attorney
Judge
20. 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 -
Hudson v. Palmer
Cruz v. beto
USA Patriot Act
Wolff v. McDaniel
21. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Grand Jury
Terrorism- Causes:
Runs juvenile hall
Atkins v. Virginia
22. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
In Re Winship
Cruz v. beto
Parens patriae
23. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Mitigating Circumstances
Wolff v. McDaniel
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
victim impact statements
24. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
No lo contendre
Court Jurisdiction
5th Amendment
aggravating circumstances
25. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Arraignment
Venue
determinate sentencing
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
26. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Trial Proceedures
Balancing test
Habeus corpus
Prosecutor
27. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Recidivism:
Indictment
Terrorism- Causes:
support for plea bargaining:
28. Least used
Mitigating Circumstances
contract attorneys
Enhancement
Explain the difference between probation and parole
29. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
aggravating circumstances
Preliminary Hearing
Court Jurisdiction
Prisoner rights:
30. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Stack Vs. Boyle
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Prisoner rights:
6th Amendment
31. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
Parolve v. probation
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
'Discover'
No lo contendre
32. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Hudson v. Palmer
Real evidence
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Runs juvenile hall
33. Decides guilt or innocence
Real evidence
Trial Jury
Procunier vs. Martinez
Terrorism- Causes:
34. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
victim impact statements
Aggravated Circumstances
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Challenges to the array
35. 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
Trial Jury
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Parens patriae
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
36. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Santobello Vs. New York
Plea Bargain
37. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
Judge
Court Jurisdiction
Probation
victim impact statements
38. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Roper v. Simmons
Determinate sentencing
direct evidence
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
39. 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
restitution
Domestic terrorism
5th Amendment
Preliminary Hearing
40. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
aggravating circumstances
Parens patriae
Grand Jury
7th Amendment
41. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Plea Bargain
Mitigating Circumstances
Goals of punishment
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
42. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
Probation
Trial Jury
Real evidence
baston v. kentucky
43. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Rules of evidence
Cause challenges:
determinate sentencing
44. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Hudson v. Palmer
restitution
Court Clerk
45. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Court Clerk
Discovery:
Indictment
Santobello Vs. New York
46. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Goals of punishment
Trial Jury
Court Clerk
Balancing test
47. 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
Cause challenges:
Forfeiture laws
Terrorism- Causes:
48. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
direct evidence
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
6th Amendment
Hudson v. Palmer
49. Review court
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
6th Amendment
Hudson v. Palmer
circunstancial evidence
50. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
circunstancial evidence
Discovery:
contract attorneys
4 types of courts found in the CA court system