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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Constitutional Law
Due Process Phase
Court Room Work Group
Complaint
2. What is discovery?
Trials
Judicial System = Institutional System
Evidence
Judiciary Act
3. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Evidence
Change
Adversarial System
Stare Decisis
4. What level of law enforcement generally provides services to the local court system?
Boston Massacre
County
Original Jurisdiction
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
5. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
1977 Dixon Bill
Discretion
State Supreme Court
6. What concept deals with corrections or judicial personal determining how much incarceration a person will serve?
First Continental Congress
State
Mala Prohibita
Indeterminate Sentencing
7. When pleading guilty at a felony arrangement - what does the judge generally do for sentencing?
Continue to another date
Dual System
Courts
U.S. Constitution
8. What important corrections position was mandated in Massachusetts in 1878?
Evidence
Crime Control - Due Process
Probation Officer
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
9. What does a mitigating factor make the report?
14th Amendment
Arrangement
State Supreme Court
Better
10. In the wild west what were the people called who banded together to protect each other?
None
Aggravating - Mitigating
Serpico
Vigilantes
11. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
Judicial/Legislative
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
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12. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
F.B.I.
U.S. Constitution
Deterrence
1899 Illinois
13. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Discretion
Pretrial Hearing
Hoover
14. What is the most important thing that a probation officer does in the presentence court report?
Complaint
Potential for Incarceration
John Augustus
Evaluation
15. Both felonies are misdemeanors are first filed as what?
17 -500
Special Police Force
Complaint
U.S. Marshall's
16. The three federal courts are known as what?
First Continental Congress
Ah Peen
Article III of the Constitution
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
17. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Evaluation
Loosely Coupled
F.B.I
Assistant District Attorneys
18. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Appeal
Bill of Rights
19. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Preliminary Hearing
Complaint
Constitutional Law
Punishment without trial
20. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
Jurisdiction
830.1
Assistant District Attorneys
First Continental Congress
21. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Dual System
Yes
Prison Time - Death Sentence
Stamp Act of 1765
22. From 1789 to 1799 how was the U.S. Supreme Court?
Very inactive
Own Recognizance
State
Aggravating - Mitigating
23. During the Revolutionary War what major document helped to guide the colonies in fighting their war against Britain?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Articles of Confederation
1899 Illinois
Reputation and Appearance - Dialogue and Counseling - Empty Hands - Physical Restraint - Mechanical Restraint - Chemical Restraint
24. What were minors who disobeyed orders of the Kings Chancery Court system called?
U.S. Marshall's
Adversarial System
Mala Prohibita
Incorrigibles
25. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Tribal
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1203(b)(1) - Felony
County
26. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Worse
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Serpico
Attorney General
27. When court systems or levels disagree or question if rules are properly applied - what type of court is used?
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Appeals
Judicial System = Institutional System
28. The Federal Court system was authorized through what?
King John
U.S. Federal District Courts
Article III of the Constitution
Lexington - Concord
29. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
U.S. Marshall's
Worse
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
30. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
Preliminary Hearing
1 and 8
John Marshall
Worse
31. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Sworn - Non-sworn
Due Process Phase
Petition
Judicial - Executive
32. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
Ah Peen
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
85%
Sworn - Non-sworn
33. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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34. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Life
Magna Carta
John Marshall
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
35. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Felony
Secret Service
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Patronage and Corruption
36. What two additional sentences can come from a Formal Felony Sentencing Hearing different from a misdemeanor?
F.B.I
Tribal
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Prison Time - Death Sentence
37. What type of bodies do our current laws come from?
Judicial Review
Discretion
Judicial/Legislative
King John
38. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
17 -500
39. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Preliminary Hearing
Indeterminate Sentencing
Local level
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
40. What English king was responsible for generating the concept of the Magna Carta?
The Family Model
Magna Carta
King John
Evaluation
41. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Lexington - Concord
John Augustus
Discretion
Loosely Coupled
42. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
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85%
50 - 25000
Very inactive
43. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Federal Court System
Preliminary Hearing
Stars
Petition
44. What does a preliminary hearing determine?
U.S. Constitution
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Possecomintatus
45. How many chief justice and associate justices currently make up the U.S. Supreme Court?
Very inactive
King Henry II
Intermediate Courts
1 and 8
46. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
1903
State
Bill of Rights
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
47. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?
Federal Court System
Stare Decisis
Evidence
Adversarial System
48. What crimes is the death penalty used for?
Courts
Intermediate Courts
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
49. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Mary Ann Crouse
English Common Law
John Augustus
Local level
50. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Stamp Act of 1765
Yes
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
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