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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Review court
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Grand Jury
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
The man known as the first probation officer?
2. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Real evidence
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
circunstancial evidence
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
3. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
determinate sentencing
The man known as the first probation officer?
Terrorism- Causes:
Challenges to the array
4. Made victim impact statements legal
6th Amendment
Prisoner rights:
Hudson v. Palmer
Payne V. Tennessee
5. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
victim impact statements
mitigating circumstances
In Re Gault
Pre-sentence report
6. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
baston v. kentucky
Plea Bargain
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Balancing test
7. 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
Peremptory Challenges:
Judge
In Re Gault
Terroism threat levels
8. 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
In Re Winship
Domestic terrorism
Small Courts Claim
Prisoner rights:
9. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Atkins v. Virginia
Real evidence
USA Patriot Act
Domestic terrorism
10. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Runs juvenile hall
restitution
Terroism threat levels
Preliminary Hearing
11. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Prisoner rights:
Domestic terrorism
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Determinate sentencing
12. Decides guilt or innocence
victim impact statements
Trial Jury
Mitigating Circumstances
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
13. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
indeterminate sentencing
Small Courts Claim
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Bailiff
14. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
Challenges to the array
Trial Jury
Probation officer
List three ways a person can be released from jail
15. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Real evidence
Stack Vs. Boyle
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Peremptory Challenges:
16. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Bailiff
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Atkins v. Virginia
17. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Payne V. Tennessee
Balancing test
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
18. Probation
Morissey v. Brewer
Plea Bargain
Runs juvenile hall
Parolve v. probation
19. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Santobello Vs. New York
determinate sentencing
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
restitution
20. John Augustus
The man known as the first probation officer?
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
restitution
Aggravated Circumstances
21. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Voir Dire
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Indictment
Court Jurisdiction
22. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
How does an individual become a federal judge
Criminal Complaint
Presentence investigation
Prosecutor
23. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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24. A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Court apointed council
Judge
Real evidence
25. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Trial Proceedures
In Re Winship
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Atkins v. Virginia
26. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Forfeiture laws
baston v. kentucky
Court apointed council
Wolff v. McDaniel
27. 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.
Aggravated Circumstances
Forfeiture laws
Voir Dire
Atkins v. Virginia
28. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Atkins v. Virginia
Real evidence
Roper v. Simmons
29. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
The man known as the first probation officer?
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Determinate sentencing
Plea Bargain
30. 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
Determinate sentencing
indeterminate sentencing
Prisoner rights:
Against Plea bargaining:
31. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Aggravated Circumstances
Probation officer
Criminal Complaint
Pre-sentence report
32. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Morissey v. Brewer
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Real evidence
Pre-sentence report
33. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
No lo contendre
Suspended sentence
Aggravated Circumstances
List three ways a person can be released from jail
34. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
circunstancial evidence
Grand Jury
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Forfeiture laws
35. Prisoners challenged the constitutionality of state regulations covering censorship of prisoner mail on the grounds that they violated the prisoners free-speech rights. REstrictions on speech must be justified as the necessity for security and the ru
Peremptory Challenges:
Grand Jury
Probation
Procunier vs. Martinez
36. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
5th Amendment
Stack Vs. Boyle
Court apointed council
37. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
6th Amendment
Recidivism:
The man known as the first probation officer?
Homeland security
38. (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
Criminal Complaint
Parole
Real evidence
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
39. Geographic area of the court
Wolff v. McDaniel
Stack Vs. Boyle
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Venue
40. 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.
5th Amendment
In Re Gault
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Prisoner rights:
41. 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
Trial Proceedures
Presentence investigation
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Suspended sentence
42. Fee based on state rate
Explain the difference between probation and parole
mitigating circumstances
Court apointed council
Prosecutor
43. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Probation
Hudson v. Palmer
Arraignment
How does an individual become a federal judge
44. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Aggravated Circumstances
The man known as the first probation officer?
Determinate sentencing
45. Nominated by the President
How does an individual become a federal judge
Parens patriae
Lockyer v. Andrade:
mitigating circumstances
46. 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
Real evidence
restitution
Small Courts Claim
Aggravated Circumstances
47. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Court Jurisdiction
Arraignment
USA Patriot Act
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
48. 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
Peremptory Challenges:
Determinate sentencing
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
'Discover'
49. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Voir Dire
Challenge for Cause
Homeland security
USA Patriot Act
50. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
Stack Vs. Boyle
No lo contendre
Voir Dire
Forfeiture laws