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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What is the point of a second preliminary hearing?
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Patrick Colquhoun
Indeterminate Sentencing
State
2. What do bills of attainer relate to?
Punishment without trial
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
London Metropolitan Police Act
Attorney General
3. What two things do military police entities possess?
State/Local Court System
U.S. Court of Appeals
Judicial System = Institutional System
Constitutional Law
4. What constitutional amendments were alluded to in Miranda versus Arizona?
17 -500
Bench Trial
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
5. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Loosely Coupled System
Patronage and Corruption
Assistant District Attorneys
Stamp Act of 1765
6. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Mala en Se
Patrick Colquhoun
State
$1.7 million
7. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Local level
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Continue to another date
U.S. Marshall's
8. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
The Penal Code
50 - 25000
1382
Bench Trial
9. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
Body - Amendments
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
10. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
English Common Law
All volunteers
John Augustus
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
11. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
14
1383
Sheriff or Shireeve
12. What does the U.S. Federal District Court possess regarding cases heard?
Original Jurisdiction
U.S. Marshall's
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Stare Decisis
13. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1987 as a supplement to UCRS?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Infraction
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
14. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Preliminary Hearing
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
15. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Conditional Sentence
17
Court Administrator
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
16. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
830.1
Lexington - Concord
Patrick Colquhoun
Pretrial Hearing
17. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Lexington - Concord
1899 Illinois
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Crime Control Due Process
18. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Future laws not passed yet
90%
19. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
F.B.I.
Sheriff or Shireeve
Appeal
Courts
20. The power of the U.S. Supreme Court to interpret what the constitution says and means - via case law - is known as what?
F.B.I.
Judicial Review
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
21. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
50 - 25000
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
22. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
Trials
King John
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
1977 Dixon Bill
23. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Punishment without trial
Generalists
Mala Prohibita
Potential for Incarceration
24. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
National Crime Information Center
Better
State
F.B.I.
25. What is another term for informal probation?
Stamp Act of 1765
Conditional Sentence
Boston Massacre
Due Process
26. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
17 -500
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Judicial/Legislative
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
27. What is meant by inferior courts?
Incorrigibles
Article III of the Constitution
Lower Courts
Mala en Se
28. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?
King John
50 - 25000
Indeterminate Sentencing
Courts
29. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Patronage
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Bench Trial
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
30. What was the original staffing of the U.S. Supreme Court?
14th Amendment
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
Future laws not passed yet
Own Recognizance
31. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?
Parens Patriae
Assistant District Attorneys
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Formal Probation
32. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Statue of Winchester
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Bench Trial
33. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
State Supreme Court
Preliminary Hearing
All volunteers
Boston Massacre
34. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Judicial Review
State Supreme Court
Self Report Studies Victimization Surveys
35. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Appeal
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Adversarial System
36. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Pendelton Act
Crime Control - Due Process
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Chief
37. Who is referred to as the father of probation?
Loosely Coupled
90 Million
John Augustus
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
38. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
34
Complaint
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
39. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Retribution
$1.7 million
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
None
40. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
1 and 8
Serpico
John Augustus
Due Process Phase
41. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Boston Massacre
Statue of Winchester
1899 Illinois
Information
42. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Formal Probation
Jurisdiction
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
43. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
Potential for Incarceration
Habeas Corpus
Judiciary Act
Complaint
44. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Retribution
State/Local Court System
Serpico
45. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
14
State
Incapaciation
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
46. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
1383
U.S. Federal District Courts
Magna Carta
5th Amendment
47. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Sir Robert Peel
1977 Dixon Bill
Superior Court
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
48. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Future laws not passed yet
King Chamberlain's Court
John Marshall
The Family Model
49. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Evidence
Loosely Coupled
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
50. What is ultimate goal at all early hearings?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
London Metropolitan Police Act
1903