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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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2. What percent of the time are deals makes and cases do not go to trial?
90%
Pendelton Act
State
Tribal
3. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Judicial - Executive
Preliminary Hearing
Lower Courts
Due Process
4. What is a legal system that pits two opposing parties against one another with a third neutral party applying the rules?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Right away
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Adversarial System
5. What are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system known as?
F.B.I
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
U.S. Federal District Courts
Court Room Work Group
6. What does ex-post facto law relate to?
Possecomintatus
English Common Law
Future laws not passed yet
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
7. What does O.R. mean?
Limited
First Continental Congress
90 Million
Own Recognizance
8. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
County
F.B.I
Boston Massacre
9. What is the best system to compile crime statistics and can stand completely on its own?
State Supreme Court
None
Felony
Court Administrator
10. What was the name of the group of people who went to Philadelphia in 1774 in order to discuss their unhappiness with Britain and its taxes?
First Continental Congress
Attorney General
Own Recognizance
1 Chief Justice 5 Associate Justices
11. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?
17
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Formal Probation
14th Amendment
12. What concept discusses 'an eye for an eye'?
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Retribution
Precedent
Habeas Corpus
13. Is the Federal or State court system older?
Discretion
State
Appeal
Loosely Coupled System
14. Who is in charge of staffing - calender - budget - and other material needs of the court room?
Hoover
Infraction
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Court Administrator
15. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
State Supreme Court
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
16. What was created in order to convince several of the new states to agree to the Constitution?
Trials
Bill of Rights
Sheriff
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
17. Negative political influence and corruption impacting 19th century U.S. police agencies was called what?
County
King Henry II
Boston Massacre
Patronage
18. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
Intermediate Courts
U.S. Federal District Courts
Government Attorney
Very inactive
19. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?
George Washington - John Adams
1383
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
17
20. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
830.1
Miranda versus Arizona
U.S. Constitution
21. If you plea guilty at a misdemeanor arraignment - when can a judge sentence you?
Right away
Marbury versus Madison
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
22. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in this country at what level?
Judicial System = Institutional System
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
State
Patronage
23. What amendment discuses issues if incorporation - citizenship - and due process?
14th Amendment
Crime Control - Due Process
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
24. What is meant by inferior courts?
U.S. Court of Appeals
Lower Courts
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
8th Amendment
25. In 1829 which English government employee pushed a new law which followed the ideas of Patrick Colquhoun?
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Sir Robert Peel
Stare Decisis
Own Recognizance
26. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?
Lexington - Concord
Sir Robert Peel
Preliminary Hearing
Misdemeanor
27. In which two locations did the actual shooting war begin between British soldiers and Colonial militia men?
Complaint
Lexington - Concord
Sworn - Non-sworn
Yes
28. What does N.C.I.C. stand for?
Miranda versus Arizona
Chief
National Crime Information Center
Adversarial System
29. How many law enforcement agencies exist in this country?
Arrangement
17 -500
Stamp Act of 1765
50 - 25000
30. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Trial
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Judicial Review
County
31. Law enforcement has been traditionally very resistant to what?
Change
Incapaciation
Serpico
Discretion
32. What kind of system is our criminal justice system based upon?
Loosely Coupled
Discretion
Review charges again because felony stakes are higher
Makes deals and not go to trial
33. What English Common Law court system could arguably be seen as the world's first dedicated juvenile court?
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34. What type of 'law' evolved and became a predictable and anticipated set of laws to the English people circa 1000 A.D.?
Life
5th Amendment 6th Amendment
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
English Common Law
35. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Right away
Prison Time - Death Sentence
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Court Administrator
36. What is the main criteria which determines whether a mater goes to a federal or state court?
Preliminary Hearing
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
Preliminary Hearing
Special Police Force
37. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?
17
State
Original Jurisdiction
Tribal
38. According to Hammurabi - what age was considered as the cut off between juveniles and adults?
14
All volunteers
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction
Discretion
39. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Crime Control Due Process
National Crime Information Center
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Parens Patriae
40. What criteria does the judge use when setting bail?
Seriousness of Offense - Flight Risk - Prior Record
Mala en Se
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
State
41. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?
King Chamberlain's Court
Discretion
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Precedent
42. Railroad Police - Port/Harbor Police - Campus Police - and Mass Transit Police are examples of what?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Special Police Force
Chief
Stare Decisis
43. Which of the five major phases in the criminal justice system since 1965 produced major case law?
Due Process Phase
14th Amendment
Sheriff or Shireeve
50 - 25000
44. What Penal Code section states that the court shall refer to probation for a report?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Aggravating - Mitigating
The Family Model
1382
45. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Stars
1382
Evidence
John Augustus
46. What amendment discusses cruel and unusual punishment?
Stare Decisis
8th Amendment
Preliminary Hearing
Articles of Confederation
47. What is the system that puts two conflicting parties against each other with a third neutral part overseeing the process?
Adversarial System
State
First Degree Murder - Federal drug trafficking and treason
Continue to another date
48. What concept did the 1800 Babylonian King Hammurabi create that said juveniles could be considered for lessor penalties?
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
King Henry II
Broken Windows
Aggravating - Mitigating
49. How many cases go to the local court level each year?
Hoover
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Severity of the crime - Where it was committed
90 Million
50. What is the name of our criminal justice system that is made up of both federal and state levels?
English Common Law
Dual System
Process criminals and criminal charges - Ensure everyone's due process
Serpico