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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. Full time- salaried
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Peremptory Challenges:
public defender
Probation
2. Geographic area of the court
determinate sentencing
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
In Re Gault
Venue
3. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
mitigating circumstances
victim impact statements
public defender
Domestic terrorism
4. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Indictment
Domestic terrorism
5. 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.
Pre-sentence report
Arraignment
Court apointed council
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
6. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Small Courts Claim
Terrorism- Causes:
Restitution
Bailiff
7. 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
Probation
Arraignment
Against Plea bargaining:
Domestic terrorism
8. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Wolff v. McDaniel
Indictment
support for plea bargaining:
Discovery:
9. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
aggravating circumstances
contract attorneys
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
10. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Rules of evidence
Suspended sentence
Voir Dire
Determinate sentencing
11. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Judge
Court Jurisdiction
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Enhancement
12. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Preliminary Hearing
Morissey v. Brewer
Bailiff
Trial Jury
13. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Bailiff
Challenges to the array
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Judge
14. Fee based on state rate
Gregg V. Georgia
Balancing test
Court apointed council
Plea Bargain
15. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
USA Patriot Act
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Prosecutor
5th Amendment
16. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
Court apointed council
victim impact statements
Domestic terrorism
Determinate sentencing
17. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Stack Vs. Boyle
Venue
Atkins v. Virginia
restitution
18. Things that add on to sentencing
No lo contendre
Enhancement
determinate sentencing
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
19. 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 -
USA Patriot Act
Court apointed council
direct evidence
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
20. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
USA Patriot Act
Preliminary Hearing
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Stack Vs. Boyle
21. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Small Courts Claim
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Arraignment
22. A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Court Jurisdiction
Judge
baston v. kentucky
23. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Against Plea bargaining:
Morissey v. Brewer
Domestic terrorism
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
24. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Domestic terrorism
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Santobello Vs. New York
Goals of punishment
25. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Court Jurisdiction
Restitution
Mitigating Circumstances
26. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Discovery:
Procunier vs. Martinez
Grand Jury
Challenge for Cause
27. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Arraignment
Terroism threat levels
Wolff v. McDaniel
Trial Proceedures
28. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
7th Amendment
Terrorism- Causes:
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Atkins v. Virginia
29. 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
aggravating circumstances
Goals of punishment
Atkins v. Virginia
In Re Gault
30. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
In Re Gault
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Terroism threat levels
31. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Roper v. Simmons
Wolff v. McDaniel
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Enhancement
32. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
Pre-sentence report
Defense Attorney
Intermediate sentencing
Preliminary Hearing
33. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
Court apointed council
No lo contendre
Preliminary Hearing
Runs juvenile hall
34. 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.
Habeus corpus
indeterminate sentencing
5th Amendment
Forfeiture laws
35. 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
Prosecutor
Against Plea bargaining:
Terroism threat levels
circunstancial evidence
36. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
3 level of security associated with prisons
Pre-sentence report
indeterminate sentencing
victim impact statements
37. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
Hudson v. Palmer
Homeland security
Intermediate sentencing
direct evidence
38. 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.
Challenge for Cause
circunstancial evidence
contract attorneys
aggravating circumstances
39. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Pre-sentence report
Venue
Domestic terrorism
Goals of punishment
40. Nominated by the President
Indictment
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
How does an individual become a federal judge
Payne V. Tennessee
41. 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
Payne V. Tennessee
Homeland security
determinate sentencing
42. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Small Courts Claim
Parole
Homeland security
Judge
43. (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
Parole
6th Amendment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Indictment
44. 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.
Court apointed council
Roper v. Simmons
Probation officer
Bailiff
45. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Restitution
Procunier vs. Martinez
Wolff v. McDaniel
In Re Winship
46. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
aggravating circumstances
Stack Vs. Boyle
Explain the difference between probation and parole
In Re Gault
47. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Determinate sentencing
support for plea bargaining:
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Real evidence
48. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Defense Attorney
In Re Gault
aggravating circumstances
49. 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.
Cruz v. beto
Prisoner rights:
determinate sentencing
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
50. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Enhancement
circunstancial evidence
Real evidence
Probation officer