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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Challenges to the array
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Probation officer
Payne V. Tennessee
2. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Prosecutor
support for plea bargaining:
Santobello Vs. New York
Criminal Complaint
3. Geographic area of the court
Venue
baston v. kentucky
Criminal Complaint
Arraignment
4. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Intermediate sentencing
Prosecutor
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
5. Review court
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
5th Amendment
circunstancial evidence
Court apointed council
6. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
circunstancial evidence
Explain the difference between probation and parole
List three ways a person can be released from jail
7. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Challenges to the array
Cruz v. beto
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
baston v. kentucky
8. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Explain the difference between probation and parole
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Bailiff
indeterminate sentencing
9. Decides guilt or innocence
victim impact statements
Domestic terrorism
Forfeiture laws
Trial Jury
10. Full time- salaried
Determinate sentencing
Santobello Vs. New York
Probation officer
public defender
11. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Criminal Complaint
Forfeiture laws
Trial Jury
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
12. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Presentence investigation
Aggravated Circumstances
mitigating circumstances
Intermediate sentencing
13. Physical material or traces of physical activity
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Recidivism:
Small Courts Claim
Real evidence
14. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Trial Proceedures
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
The man known as the first probation officer?
List three ways a person can be released from jail
15. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Procunier vs. Martinez
Real evidence
Suspended sentence
Challenges to the array
16. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
Cruz v. beto
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Court apointed council
direct evidence
17. Least used
contract attorneys
Plea Bargain
Procunier vs. Martinez
Domestic terrorism
18. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Runs juvenile hall
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
19. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Atkins v. Virginia
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Prisoner rights:
Cause challenges:
20. 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
Aggravated Circumstances
Trial Proceedures
Procunier vs. Martinez
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
21. 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.
Venue
Arraignment
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Forfeiture laws
22. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Court apointed council
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Mitigating Circumstances
Bailiff
23. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
USA Patriot Act
Gregg V. Georgia
Real evidence
Terrorism- Causes:
24. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Goals of punishment
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
'Discover'
25. 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
contract attorneys
Homeland security
Atkins v. Virginia
Against Plea bargaining:
26. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Cause challenges:
Balancing test
Prosecutor
27. 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
Rules of evidence
In Re Winship
Domestic terrorism
Atkins v. Virginia
28. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Determinate sentencing
Terroism threat levels
circunstancial evidence
Bailiff
29. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
3 level of security associated with prisons
Court Clerk
6th Amendment
circunstancial evidence
30. 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
Parole
Real evidence
Suspended sentence
Parolve v. probation
31. (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
Gregg V. Georgia
Recidivism:
Court apointed council
32. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Determinate sentencing
Prosecutor
Morissey v. Brewer
indeterminate sentencing
33. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Prisoner rights:
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Terroism threat levels
Morissey v. Brewer
34. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
'Discover'
Voir Dire
Payne V. Tennessee
Real evidence
35. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
baston v. kentucky
circunstancial evidence
Plea Bargain
Forfeiture laws
36. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Voir Dire
Terrorism- Causes:
Domestic terrorism
Prosecutor
37. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Santobello Vs. New York
Intermediate sentencing
Aggravated Circumstances
7th Amendment
38. 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
restitution
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Prisoner rights:
List three ways a person can be released from jail
39. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Recidivism:
Real evidence
Real evidence
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
40. 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.
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Aggravated Circumstances
Pre-sentence report
Santobello Vs. New York
41. 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
Procunier vs. Martinez
Court Clerk
support for plea bargaining:
mitigating circumstances
42. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
In Re Winship
Court Jurisdiction
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
victim impact statements
43. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Prisoner rights:
Rules of evidence
Recidivism:
Santobello Vs. New York
44. 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.
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Indictment
Challenge for Cause
No lo contendre
45. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Trial Proceedures
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Arraignment
direct evidence
46. 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 -
Court Clerk
USA Patriot Act
Court Jurisdiction
baston v. kentucky
47. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Indictment
Peremptory Challenges:
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
'Discover'
48. The lawyer representing the defendant
Probation
Balancing test
Defense Attorney
restitution
49. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
In Re Gault
circunstancial evidence
Recidivism:
Prosecutor
50. A writ whcih requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court. This ensure that a prisoner can be released form unlawful detention.
Challenges to the array
Parolve v. probation
Morissey v. Brewer
Habeus corpus