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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
The man known as the first probation officer?
Bailiff
Morissey v. Brewer
Forfeiture laws
2. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Discovery:
aggravating circumstances
baston v. kentucky
5th Amendment
3. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Homeland security
Recidivism:
Hudson v. Palmer
4. 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.
Court apointed council
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Court Clerk
support for plea bargaining:
5. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Restitution
Procunier vs. Martinez
Habeus corpus
6. 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
Small Courts Claim
Defense Attorney
victim impact statements
Domestic terrorism
7. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Payne V. Tennessee
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Plea Bargain
Trial Proceedures
8. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
6th Amendment
Forfeiture laws
aggravating circumstances
Cause challenges:
9. Jury trial in civil cases
direct evidence
7th Amendment
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
restitution
10. 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
Cruz v. beto
Wolff v. McDaniel
6th Amendment
The man known as the first probation officer?
11. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Terroism threat levels
Goals of punishment
Challenges to the array
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
12. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Mitigating Circumstances
Stack Vs. Boyle
Terroism threat levels
Small Courts Claim
13. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
baston v. kentucky
mitigating circumstances
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
victim impact statements
14. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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15. Made victim impact statements legal
Payne V. Tennessee
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Discovery:
Court Jurisdiction
16. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
Probation officer
Challenge for Cause
Parens patriae
Parolve v. probation
17. Fee based on state rate
victim impact statements
Court apointed council
Prosecutor
Parens patriae
18. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Judge
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Goals of punishment
Gregg V. Georgia
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.
Pre-sentence report
Preliminary Hearing
Morissey v. Brewer
Parolve v. probation
20. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Trial Proceedures
contract attorneys
6th Amendment
Parole
21. Full time- salaried
Intermediate sentencing
Defense Attorney
public defender
support for plea bargaining:
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
determinate sentencing
Trial Proceedures
Procunier vs. Martinez
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
23. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Presentence investigation
Challenges to the array
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Parolve v. probation
24. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Santobello Vs. New York
Rules of evidence
Gregg V. Georgia
Atkins v. Virginia
25. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Goals of punishment
Challenges to the array
Grand Jury
6th Amendment
26. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Plea Bargain
aggravating circumstances
Challenges to the array
27. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Indictment
restitution
circunstancial evidence
6th Amendment
28. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Balancing test
Payne V. Tennessee
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Intermediate sentencing
29. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
Arraignment
Roper v. Simmons
Wolff v. McDaniel
Peremptory Challenges:
30. Geographic area of the court
Intermediate sentencing
Venue
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Criminal Complaint
31. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Terrorism- Causes:
Hudson v. Palmer
circunstancial evidence
Runs juvenile hall
32. 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 -
Atkins v. Virginia
Aggravated Circumstances
USA Patriot Act
Challenges to the array
33. Probation
Peremptory Challenges:
Santobello Vs. New York
3 level of security associated with prisons
Runs juvenile hall
34. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Enhancement
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
indeterminate sentencing
Trial Jury
35. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Bailiff
Terroism threat levels
No lo contendre
determinate sentencing
36. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Real evidence
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
contract attorneys
Court Clerk
37. Least used
Against Plea bargaining:
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
contract attorneys
Discovery:
38. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
baston v. kentucky
Gregg V. Georgia
No lo contendre
indeterminate sentencing
39. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Hudson v. Palmer
Bailiff
Enhancement
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
40. Review court
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Court Jurisdiction
Discovery:
How does an individual become a federal judge
41. 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
contract attorneys
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Procunier vs. Martinez
Arraignment
42. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates
Trial Jury
contract attorneys
circunstancial evidence
Wolff v. McDaniel
43. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Court apointed council
Court Jurisdiction
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Judge
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.
How does an individual become a federal judge
Probation officer
Court apointed council
Morissey v. Brewer
45. 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
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Homeland security
Peremptory Challenges:
46. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Forfeiture laws
circunstancial evidence
Suspended sentence
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
47. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Morissey v. Brewer
Wolff v. McDaniel
Pre-sentence report
mitigating circumstances
48. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
USA Patriot Act
Goals of punishment
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Parolve v. probation
49. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
Challenge for Cause
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
50. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
direct evidence
Parole
Grand Jury
Forfeiture laws