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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Preliminary Hearing
Criminal Complaint
Cruz v. beto
Atkins v. Virginia
2. Things that add on to sentencing
Trial Proceedures
The man known as the first probation officer?
Enhancement
Bailiff
3. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
aggravating circumstances
Plea Bargain
Bailiff
baston v. kentucky
4. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
Terroism threat levels
Prisoner rights:
3 level of security associated with prisons
Judge
5. Decides guilt or innocence
Arraignment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Trial Jury
determinate sentencing
6. Full time- salaried
public defender
Hudson v. Palmer
Pre-sentence report
determinate sentencing
7. 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.
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Mitigating Circumstances
Court Clerk
Defense Attorney
8. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Voir Dire
In Re Winship
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
No lo contendre
9. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Cause challenges:
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Homeland security
10. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Real evidence
How does an individual become a federal judge
11. 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:
3 level of security associated with prisons
6th Amendment
Parole
12. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Morissey v. Brewer
In Re Winship
Trial Proceedures
The man known as the first probation officer?
13. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Parens patriae
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
3 level of security associated with prisons
Suspended sentence
14. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Court Jurisdiction
3 level of security associated with prisons
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Court Clerk
15. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
In Re Gault
Criminal Complaint
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Atkins v. Virginia
16. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Trial Proceedures
Cruz v. beto
7th Amendment
In Re Winship
17. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
victim impact statements
Enhancement
restitution
Lockyer v. Andrade:
18. A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
Judge
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Arraignment
Roper v. Simmons
19. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Mitigating Circumstances
Terroism threat levels
Defense Attorney
20. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Goals of punishment
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Court Jurisdiction
Arraignment
21. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Court apointed council
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Grand Jury
7th Amendment
22. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
mitigating circumstances
baston v. kentucky
Suspended sentence
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
23. 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
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Probation
'Discover'
Against Plea bargaining:
24. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Parole
Discovery:
Gregg V. Georgia
Hudson v. Palmer
25. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Court apointed council
Challenge for Cause
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Preliminary Hearing
26. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Discovery:
Parole
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Explain the difference between probation and parole
27. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Arraignment
Aggravated Circumstances
28. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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29. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
Preliminary Hearing
Domestic terrorism
In Re Winship
Restitution
30. 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 -
Peremptory Challenges:
mitigating circumstances
USA Patriot Act
Court Jurisdiction
31. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Court apointed council
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Prosecutor
32. Geographic area of the court
Venue
Balancing test
Voir Dire
Trial Proceedures
33. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Runs juvenile hall
Challenges to the array
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
34. 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
Explain the difference between probation and parole
In Re Gault
Pre-sentence report
Prisoner rights:
35. Fee based on state rate
No lo contendre
Court apointed council
5th Amendment
Parolve v. probation
36. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
Payne V. Tennessee
How does an individual become a federal judge
Challenge for Cause
List three ways a person can be released from jail
37. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
Small Courts Claim
Real evidence
contract attorneys
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
38. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Pre-sentence report
Prisoner rights:
Challenges to the array
Mitigating Circumstances
39. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Habeus corpus
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Mitigating Circumstances
aggravating circumstances
40. 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
USA Patriot Act
mitigating circumstances
Atkins v. Virginia
41. 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
public defender
Balancing test
Payne V. Tennessee
Against Plea bargaining:
42. Probation
Runs juvenile hall
Indictment
Court Clerk
Roper v. Simmons
43. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Goals of punishment
Roper v. Simmons
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
44. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
Against Plea bargaining:
Criminal Complaint
direct evidence
No lo contendre
45. 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
Criminal Complaint
Presentence investigation
Plea Bargain
Cause challenges:
46. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
Small Courts Claim
Restitution
Real evidence
Parolve v. probation
47. Review court
support for plea bargaining:
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Venue
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
48. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Bailiff
Parens patriae
aggravating circumstances
direct evidence
49. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Stack Vs. Boyle
Intermediate sentencing
Peremptory Challenges:
Parole
50. Jury trial in civil cases
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
7th Amendment
Balancing test