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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Presentence investigation
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Probation
2. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Bailiff
Procunier vs. Martinez
Voir Dire
Santobello Vs. New York
3. 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
Challenges to the array
Peremptory Challenges:
USA Patriot Act
Criminal Complaint
4. Decides guilt or innocence
Parens patriae
Goals of punishment
Trial Jury
aggravating circumstances
5. 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.
Parole
7th Amendment
Pre-sentence report
Habeus corpus
6. 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
Goals of punishment
In Re Gault
Court Jurisdiction
7. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
'Discover'
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Small Courts Claim
Prosecutor
8. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Mitigating Circumstances
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
How does an individual become a federal judge
9. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
5th Amendment
Plea Bargain
Court Jurisdiction
restitution
10. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
indeterminate sentencing
aggravating circumstances
Goals of punishment
public defender
11. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
victim impact statements
Morissey v. Brewer
Payne V. Tennessee
Forfeiture laws
12. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
Terrorism- Causes:
Rules of evidence
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
13. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Terrorism- Causes:
Domestic terrorism
Hudson v. Palmer
14. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Payne V. Tennessee
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Intermediate sentencing
Probation officer
15. 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.
Rules of evidence
Gregg V. Georgia
Recidivism:
Prisoner rights:
16. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Prisoner rights:
Morissey v. Brewer
Real evidence
Preliminary Hearing
17. Fee based on state rate
Court apointed council
Homeland security
Recidivism:
Runs juvenile hall
18. 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
Roper v. Simmons
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Aggravated Circumstances
19. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Judge
support for plea bargaining:
Gregg V. Georgia
Arraignment
20. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Determinate sentencing
mitigating circumstances
Cause challenges:
21. 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
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
In Re Gault
Aggravated Circumstances
22. The lawyer representing the defendant
Defense Attorney
In Re Gault
Venue
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
23. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
3 level of security associated with prisons
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Aggravated Circumstances
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
24. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Criminal Complaint
Plea Bargain
Atkins v. Virginia
victim impact statements
25. 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 -
USA Patriot Act
Parole
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Voir Dire
26. 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.
Stack Vs. Boyle
Gregg V. Georgia
Challenges to the array
Habeus corpus
27. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Parolve v. probation
Mitigating Circumstances
Challenges to the array
Domestic terrorism
28. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
No lo contendre
Cause challenges:
baston v. kentucky
Hudson v. Palmer
29. 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
Habeus corpus
support for plea bargaining:
Court Jurisdiction
Probation officer
30. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Terrorism- Causes:
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Suspended sentence
direct evidence
31. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
Stack Vs. Boyle
Arraignment
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
32. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
Court Clerk
Probation
Morissey v. Brewer
3 level of security associated with prisons
33. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Cause challenges:
Venue
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Atkins v. Virginia
34. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Determinate sentencing
Indictment
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
35. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
Plea Bargain
Forfeiture laws
6th Amendment
Bailiff
36. Nominated by the President
Bailiff
Venue
How does an individual become a federal judge
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
37. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Goals of punishment
Suspended sentence
Voir Dire
Grand Jury
38. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
mitigating circumstances
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
'Discover'
determinate sentencing
39. John Augustus
Goals of punishment
The man known as the first probation officer?
determinate sentencing
Santobello Vs. New York
40. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Goals of punishment
Runs juvenile hall
Challenges to the array
Terroism threat levels
41. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Presentence investigation
Parens patriae
Real evidence
Challenge for Cause
42. 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
Probation
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Court Jurisdiction
restitution
43. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
baston v. kentucky
public defender
Judge
Discovery:
44. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Habeus corpus
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
determinate sentencing
Trial Jury
45. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Terroism threat levels
Rules of evidence
Homeland security
5th Amendment
46. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
Parolve v. probation
Forfeiture laws
Morissey v. Brewer
In Re Winship
47. 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
Procunier vs. Martinez
Stack Vs. Boyle
Real evidence
Homeland security
48. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates
Real evidence
Homeland security
circunstancial evidence
Santobello Vs. New York
49. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Gregg V. Georgia
Stack Vs. Boyle
Recidivism:
support for plea bargaining:
50. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Procunier vs. Martinez
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Intermediate sentencing
Terroism threat levels