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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the four main players in the criminal justice system?
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
F.B.I.
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Worse
2. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Adversarial System
Bill of Rights
State
5th Amendment
3. The third federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
830.1
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
U.S. Federal District Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
4. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Trials
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Mala Prohibita
Tribal
5. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Tribal
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Parens Patriae
6. What hearing comes after a misdemeanor arraignment?
Patronage
Judiciary Act
Pretrial Hearing
14
7. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?
King Henry II
Statue of Winchester
Stamp Act of 1765
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
8. What federal law enforcement agency delegated peace officer powers to citizens during the era of the wild west?
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9. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
Miranda versus Arizona
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Government Attorney
Court Room Work Group
10. What is known as the highest source of law found within either a country or state?
Constitutional Law
Sheriff
Conditional Sentence
Discretion
11. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Worse
17
State Supreme Court
Superior Court
12. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?
Bench Trial
85%
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Indeterminate Sentencing
13. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?
Mala en Se
Evaluation
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
14. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Adversarial System
14
Body - Amendments
15. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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16. Where does a felony case begin?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Formal Probation
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Possecomintatus
17. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?
All volunteers
Parens Patriae
8th Amendment
Crime Control - Due Process
18. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
State
Right away
Federal Court System
Appeal
19. Which 1760s British tax law placed tax quotes on all paper based products imported into the colonies?
Future laws not passed yet
Serpico
Stamp Act of 1765
Change
20. The term original jurisdiction alludes to what?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Judicial System = Institutional System
Trials
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
21. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Discretion
14th Amendment
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
Adversarial System
22. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Due Process
Crime Control Due Process
830.1
Sheriff
23. What 1865 federal law enforcement agency was initially responsible for excessive counterfeiting following the civil war?
Due Process Phase
Jurisdiction
F.B.I
Secret Service
24. What was name of the era which was distinguished by the Kansas City Patrol Experiment and Flint - Michigan Patrol Program?
Community Orientated Policing Era
Hoover
Superior Court
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
25. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?
85%
Serpico
Patronage and Corruption
Misdemeanor
26. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Preliminary Hearing
Petition
U.S. Postal Inspectors
27. What kind of powers do corrections and probation officers have?
U.S. Postal Inspectors
Continue to another date
Limited
Bill of Rights
28. What is another term for informal probation?
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
None
Conditional Sentence
Crime Control Due Process
29. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Sheriff or Shireeve
Miranda versus Arizona
King John
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
30. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
Pendelton Act
Jurisdiction
14
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
31. What two types of employees do law enforcement agencies employ?
Sworn - Non-sworn
50 - 25000
Possecomintatus
Hoover
32. The average local law enforcement agency will often employ how many officers and serve what size population?
King Chamberlain's Court
Indeterminate Sentencing
50 - 25000
Presentence Court Report
33. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Incorrigibles
Arrangement
Dual System
34. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
Incorrigibles
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
90%
Conditional Sentence
35. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?
Tribal
Legislative - Executive - Judicial
Lexington - Concord
1203(b)(1) - Felony
36. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?
Intermediate Courts
Judicial/Legislative
Infraction
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
37. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
U.S. Federal District Courts
Trial
King Chamberlain's Court
17
38. The Reintegration Model - circa 1960s - failed due to community concern over leniency toward criminals and what two major social events?
The Penal Code
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Very inactive
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
39. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?
Habeas Corpus
U.S. Marshall's
Lower Courts
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
40. In Orange County - what is the misdemeanor Pretrial Hearing called?
Petition
5th Amendment
D&R - Disposition and Resetting
Sworn - Non-sworn
41. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
Due Process Phase
Body - Amendments
None
Statue of Winchester
42. The second federal inferior court of authority is known as what?
Judicial/Legislative
U.S. Court of Appeals
14th Amendment
Felony
43. The three federal courts are known as what?
U.S. Federal District Courts
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
Secret Service
1383
44. What does O.R. mean?
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
County
Own Recognizance
Article III of the Constitution
45. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?
U.S. Postal Service Inspectors - Federal Marshall's Department
17
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
Loosely Coupled
46. How many states have State Courts of Appeals?
F.B.I.
Adversarial System
39
Deterrence
47. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
State/Local Court System
U.S. Federal District Courts
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
48. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
Patronage
Habeas Corpus
Dual System
U.S. Postal Inspectors
49. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
Local level
U.S. Court of Appeals - State Supreme Court
Adversarial System
Limited
50. Why does someone plea nolo contendre?
Bill of Rights
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Articles of Confederation