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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Mitigating Circumstances
Intermediate sentencing
Suspended sentence
Challenge for Cause
2. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Criminal Complaint
3 level of security associated with prisons
Restitution
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
3. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Determinate sentencing
Preliminary Hearing
mitigating circumstances
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
4. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Parole
Venue
Cause challenges:
5. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Grand Jury
Probation officer
Gregg V. Georgia
6. 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
Trial Jury
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
determinate sentencing
Homeland security
7. Grand Jury
5th Amendment
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
mitigating circumstances
aggravating circumstances
8. The lawyer representing the defendant
Defense Attorney
In Re Gault
Santobello Vs. New York
Cause challenges:
9. 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:
baston v. kentucky
Roper v. Simmons
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
10. Full time- salaried
public defender
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Habeus corpus
Domestic terrorism
11. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
aggravating circumstances
Cruz v. beto
contract attorneys
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
12. 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
How does an individual become a federal judge
Habeus corpus
Prisoner rights:
Domestic terrorism
13. Nominated by the President
How does an individual become a federal judge
Rules of evidence
7th Amendment
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
14. 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.
public defender
Preliminary Hearing
Arraignment
Court Clerk
15. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
In Re Winship
Small Courts Claim
victim impact statements
How does an individual become a federal judge
16. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
mitigating circumstances
Restitution
Determinate sentencing
Grand Jury
17. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Trial Proceedures
Aggravated Circumstances
Domestic terrorism
Habeus corpus
18. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Court Jurisdiction
7th Amendment
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.
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Hudson v. Palmer
Pre-sentence report
Forfeiture laws
20. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Aggravated Circumstances
contract attorneys
circunstancial evidence
Homeland security
21. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Intermediate sentencing
Against Plea bargaining:
support for plea bargaining:
Plea Bargain
22. John Augustus
3 level of security associated with prisons
Stack Vs. Boyle
Voir Dire
The man known as the first probation officer?
23. 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
Grand Jury
Homeland security
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
In Re Winship
24. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Prosecutor
Roper v. Simmons
7th Amendment
'Discover'
25. 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
Presentence investigation
Procunier vs. Martinez
Pre-sentence report
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
26. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Terroism threat levels
Trial Jury
Gregg V. Georgia
Probation
27. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Lockyer v. Andrade:
In Re Winship
3 level of security associated with prisons
indeterminate sentencing
28. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Trial Jury
Santobello Vs. New York
Voir Dire
Cause challenges:
29. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
USA Patriot Act
Trial Proceedures
Judge
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
30. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Habeus corpus
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Terrorism- Causes:
31. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
Wolff v. McDaniel
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
No lo contendre
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
32. 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
Cause challenges:
Defense Attorney
support for plea bargaining:
33. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Terroism threat levels
Roper v. Simmons
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Prosecutor
34. 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
aggravating circumstances
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
35. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
Roper v. Simmons
6th Amendment
Parole
Wolff v. McDaniel
36. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
Determinate sentencing
Probation
In Re Winship
Voir Dire
37. A principle developed by the courts and applied to the corrections arena by pell v. procunier that attempts to weigh the rights of an individual as guaranteed by the Constituion - against the authority of states of make laws or to otherwise restrict
Intermediate sentencing
Balancing test
Wolff v. McDaniel
Bailiff
38. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Peremptory Challenges:
Court Jurisdiction
Grand Jury
Stack Vs. Boyle
39. Made victim impact statements legal
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Payne V. Tennessee
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Stack Vs. Boyle
40. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
Indictment
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Parens patriae
List three ways a person can be released from jail
41. 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
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
In Re Gault
Wolff v. McDaniel
Trial Jury
42. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
No lo contendre
Real evidence
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Homeland security
43. 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
Balancing test
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Venue
restitution
44. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
baston v. kentucky
Recidivism:
Court Jurisdiction
Preliminary Hearing
45. 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
Cruz v. beto
Arraignment
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Against Plea bargaining:
46. 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
Enhancement
victim impact statements
Peremptory Challenges:
Plea Bargain
47. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
No lo contendre
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Preliminary Hearing
Small Courts Claim
48. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
Roper v. Simmons
Rules of evidence
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Runs juvenile hall
49. Decides guilt or innocence
Recidivism:
Trial Jury
public defender
6th Amendment
50. Fee based on state rate
Indictment
contract attorneys
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Court apointed council