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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the two types of defense attorneys?
Judiciary Act
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Ah Peen
Change
2. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
English Common Law
Sworn - Non-sworn
Judicial/Legislative
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
3. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Broken Windows
Preliminary Hearing
Serpico
4. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?
Vigilantes
Magna Carta
Habeas Corpus
Nolo Contendre
5. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Stare Decisis
London Metropolitan Police Act
4th Amendment
Very inactive
6. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
Broken Windows
Original Jurisdiction
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Judiciary Act
7. Does a county law enforcement agency head administrator generally require law enforcement experience?
Yes
F.B.I.
Possecomintatus
Crime Control - Due Process
8. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
English Common Law
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Better
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
9. What concepts attempts to protect society by isolating others?
Government Attorney
Incapaciation
Sir Robert Peel
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
10. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Ah Peen
1977 Dixon Bill
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Generalists
11. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
John Marshall
Statue of Winchester
Parens Patriae
12. What amendment discusses the right to a speedy trial?
6th Amendment
State
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Judicial/Legislative
13. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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14. What is the Latin term for the plea of the no contest?
Felony
Nolo Contendre
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
County
15. This country's criminal justice system is based on the desire for what kind of system?
Marbury versus Madison
Loosely Coupled System
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
830.1
16. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Courts
Local level
Indeterminate Sentencing
Information
17. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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18. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Limited
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Ah Peen
19. What is the name of the New York police officer - circa 1970s - who had to deal with corruption and patronage in the NYPD?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Serpico
Information
Court Room Work Group
20. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Trial
Stars
U.S. Postal Inspectors
21. What is the Latin term that describes a federal peace officer's ability to deputize citizens and give them temporary power?
F.B.I.
Possecomintatus
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
U.S. Postal Inspectors
22. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
Formal Probation
50 - 25000
Boston Massacre
Information
23. What is meant by inferior courts?
Nolo Contendre
Lower Courts
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
90%
24. What are the two parts of the Constitution called?
Body - Amendments
1899 Illinois
Stare Decisis
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
25. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
Makes deals and not go to trial
Tribal
Assistant District Attorneys
1382
26. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
17 -500
27. The three federal courts are known as what?
Adversarial System
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Prison Time - Death Sentence
830.1
28. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
90%
Due Process Phase
34
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
29. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Evaluation
Stamp Act of 1765
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Patrick Colquhoun
30. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Trials
Judiciary Act
Article III of the Constitution
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
31. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
1383
14th Amendment
Trial
32. What are the five levels of law enforcement in this country?
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
Government Attorney
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Trials
33. What does O.R. mean?
Stare Decisis
Own Recognizance
Right away
Articles of Confederation
34. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Aggravating - Mitigating
F.B.I.
Judicial/Legislative
Original Jurisdiction
35. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
Future laws not passed yet
U.S. Court of Appeals
Community Orientated Policing Era
36. What 1883 federal law stressed the need for a civil service system based upon merit?
Continue to another date
Court Administrator
Pendelton Act
Chief
37. What is the State Court System's court of last resort?
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
State Supreme Court
14
38. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Patronage and Corruption
Better
London Metropolitan Police Act
Tribal
39. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Loosely Coupled
Complaint
Sheriff or Shireeve
Tribal
40. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Parens Patriae
Federal Court System
Retribution
Loosely Coupled
41. What federal law enforcement agency had its origins in 1908?
Mary Ann Crouse
English Common Law
F.B.I.
London Metropolitan Police Act
42. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Own Recognizance
Bench Trial
Appeal
Trial
43. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Sheriff or Shireeve
Misdemeanor
Prison Time - Death Sentence
44. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Due Process
Judicial Review
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Articles of Confederation
45. Who runs the N.C.I.C.?
State
F.B.I
Article III of the Constitution
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
46. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Courts
English Common Law
Sworn - Non-sworn
Aggravating - Mitigating
47. What level of law enforcement generally runs local detention facilities for adults?
1903
First Continental Congress
County
Deterrence
48. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
F.B.I
U.S. Court of Appeals
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
1977 Dixon Bill
49. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Jurisdiction
Preliminary Hearing
Judicial/Legislative
U.S. Constitution
50. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Sworn - Non-sworn
Information
Original Jurisdiction