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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Suspended sentence
Aggravated Circumstances
Peremptory Challenges:
Cruz v. beto
2. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Procunier vs. Martinez
Challenges to the array
No lo contendre
Hudson v. Palmer
3. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Challenge for Cause
3 level of security associated with prisons
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Real evidence
4. Least used
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Terrorism- Causes:
Procunier vs. Martinez
contract attorneys
5. 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
Small Courts Claim
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
baston v. kentucky
6. 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.
Probation officer
direct evidence
Trial Proceedures
Bailiff
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.
Presentence investigation
Challenge for Cause
Arraignment
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
8. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
victim impact statements
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Lockyer v. Andrade:
contract attorneys
9. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Cruz v. beto
Venue
Restitution
10. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Terroism threat levels
Intermediate sentencing
In Re Gault
Atkins v. Virginia
11. Grand Jury
Goals of punishment
5th Amendment
direct evidence
List three ways a person can be released from jail
12. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
baston v. kentucky
6th Amendment
Cruz v. beto
Discovery:
13. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
Parolve v. probation
Real evidence
mitigating circumstances
Morissey v. Brewer
14. 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.
Trial Jury
Homeland security
Pre-sentence report
direct evidence
15. Geographic area of the court
Discovery:
In Re Gault
Venue
Probation
16. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
circunstancial evidence
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Wolff v. McDaniel
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
17. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates
Stack Vs. Boyle
Cause challenges:
circunstancial evidence
public defender
18. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Indictment
Suspended sentence
Cruz v. beto
Gregg V. Georgia
19. 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
Procunier vs. Martinez
Challenge for Cause
Against Plea bargaining:
'Discover'
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
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Procunier vs. Martinez
Parolve v. probation
Trial Jury
21. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Real evidence
Balancing test
Stack Vs. Boyle
Plea Bargain
22. 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
Preliminary Hearing
Homeland security
Peremptory Challenges:
Cruz v. beto
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
The man known as the first probation officer?
In Re Winship
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Mitigating Circumstances
24. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Court apointed council
Gregg V. Georgia
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Grand Jury
25. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
indeterminate sentencing
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
aggravating circumstances
26. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
'Discover'
3 level of security associated with prisons
circunstancial evidence
contract attorneys
27. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Against Plea bargaining:
Grand Jury
Parole
Prosecutor
28. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Determinate sentencing
Challenge for Cause
3 level of security associated with prisons
Rules of evidence
29. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
Atkins v. Virginia
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
victim impact statements
Mitigating Circumstances
30. Nominated by the President
How does an individual become a federal judge
Probation officer
Rules of evidence
Venue
31. Jury trial in civil cases
Preliminary Hearing
Runs juvenile hall
7th Amendment
Wolff v. McDaniel
32. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
In Re Winship
Real evidence
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Trial Jury
33. 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
Pre-sentence report
Bailiff
Atkins v. Virginia
34. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Voir Dire
Prosecutor
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
35. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
public defender
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Wolff v. McDaniel
Atkins v. Virginia
36. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Mitigating Circumstances
Court Jurisdiction
support for plea bargaining:
37. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Prosecutor
Determinate sentencing
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Grand Jury
38. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
support for plea bargaining:
Cruz v. beto
Determinate sentencing
Roper v. Simmons
39. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Terroism threat levels
Lockyer v. Andrade:
40. Things that add on to sentencing
Hudson v. Palmer
determinate sentencing
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Enhancement
41. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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42. Made victim impact statements legal
Payne V. Tennessee
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Criminal Complaint
Probation officer
43. Review court
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
6th Amendment
Probation officer
44. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
victim impact statements
No lo contendre
Determinate sentencing
Goals of punishment
45. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
Real evidence
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Mitigating Circumstances
Trial Proceedures
46. 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.
Bailiff
Recidivism:
circunstancial evidence
3 level of security associated with prisons
47. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
public defender
Homeland security
Parole
Prosecutor
48. 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
Terroism threat levels
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Probation
49. 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
Forfeiture laws
In Re Gault
aggravating circumstances
determinate sentencing
50. Full time- salaried
public defender
Challenges to the array
USA Patriot Act
In Re Winship