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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Criminal Complaint
Against Plea bargaining:
Judge
Gregg V. Georgia
2. 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
Rules of evidence
determinate sentencing
Wolff v. McDaniel
circunstancial evidence
3. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Forfeiture laws
Determinate sentencing
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Payne V. Tennessee
4. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Restitution
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Balancing test
Arraignment
5. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Voir Dire
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Enhancement
Habeus corpus
6. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
Pre-sentence report
6th Amendment
Preliminary Hearing
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
7. 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.
Procunier vs. Martinez
Challenge for Cause
Restitution
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
8. Geographic area of the court
Venue
Trial Proceedures
Voir Dire
Criminal Complaint
9. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
7th Amendment
Parolve v. probation
aggravating circumstances
Intermediate sentencing
10. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Balancing test
In Re Winship
Habeus corpus
11. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Intermediate sentencing
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Peremptory Challenges:
Court Jurisdiction
12. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Goals of punishment
Terrorism- Causes:
victim impact statements
Suspended sentence
13. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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14. 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
Real evidence
indeterminate sentencing
Terrorism- Causes:
15. 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
support for plea bargaining:
Trial Proceedures
Goals of punishment
Wolff v. McDaniel
16. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Plea Bargain
Procunier vs. Martinez
Restitution
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
17. 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
Suspended sentence
Parolve v. probation
Terrorism- Causes:
aggravating circumstances
18. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Morissey v. Brewer
Cruz v. beto
Probation
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
19. 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.
contract attorneys
Pre-sentence report
Balancing test
Prosecutor
20. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Terrorism- Causes:
Presentence investigation
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Roper v. Simmons
21. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
6th Amendment
indeterminate sentencing
Court Jurisdiction
Plea Bargain
22. Decides guilt or innocence
Payne V. Tennessee
Trial Jury
Cause challenges:
Determinate sentencing
23. 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.
Real evidence
Court Clerk
Morissey v. Brewer
Stack Vs. Boyle
24. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Parens patriae
determinate sentencing
Recidivism:
Hudson v. Palmer
25. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Prosecutor
Presentence investigation
Grand Jury
How does an individual become a federal judge
26. 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.
Prisoner rights:
Venue
Parens patriae
Challenge for Cause
27. Nominated by the President
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
How does an individual become a federal judge
In Re Gault
Runs juvenile hall
28. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Against Plea bargaining:
Indictment
Determinate sentencing
29. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
Grand Jury
No lo contendre
victim impact statements
Indictment
30. 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
Procunier vs. Martinez
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
direct evidence
Cruz v. beto
31. 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
Morissey v. Brewer
Indictment
Presentence investigation
Prosecutor
32. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
Small Courts Claim
3 level of security associated with prisons
No lo contendre
Court apointed council
33. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Court Jurisdiction
Presentence investigation
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Parole
34. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
In Re Winship
Goals of punishment
restitution
35. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Arraignment
Criminal Complaint
aggravating circumstances
Payne V. Tennessee
36. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Parens patriae
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
37. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
Terroism threat levels
mitigating circumstances
Gregg V. Georgia
indeterminate sentencing
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
Parole
Parolve v. probation
Court Clerk
Small Courts Claim
39. The lawyer representing the defendant
Defense Attorney
Lockyer v. Andrade:
direct evidence
contract attorneys
40. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Atkins v. Virginia
Court Jurisdiction
Morissey v. Brewer
Voir Dire
41. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Probation officer
Discovery:
Determinate sentencing
42. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
3 level of security associated with prisons
Recidivism:
Presentence investigation
43. 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
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Against Plea bargaining:
Indictment
Trial Jury
44. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
3 level of security associated with prisons
Cause challenges:
direct evidence
7th Amendment
45. Held that when a juvenile is charged with an act taht would be a crime if committed by an adult - every element of the offense must be proved beyond reasonable doubt
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Trial Proceedures
In Re Winship
Probation
46. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Venue
Atkins v. Virginia
Determinate sentencing
7th Amendment
47. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Trial Proceedures
Wolff v. McDaniel
Defense Attorney
48. The act of a person repeating of an undesirable behavior after thay have either experienced negative consequences of that behavior or have been treated or trained to extinguish that behavior.
Recidivism:
public defender
determinate sentencing
Challenge for Cause
49. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
Voir Dire
Probation officer
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Morissey v. Brewer
50. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Indictment
Probation officer
What is another term used to identify supreme courts