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Criminal Justice 101
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1. What amendment discusses protection from self incrimination?
Judiciary Act
5th Amendment
Trial
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
2. What is the legal term for fundamental fairness?
Due Process
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Adversarial System
3. 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
Due Process
Cannot be used against you later in civil court
Article III of the Constitution
4. After the Bill of Rights was ratified - how many more times was the U.S. Constitution amended?
State
Articles of Confederation
17
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
5. Where are the vast majority of cases heard?
5th Amendment
Jury Panel Death Penalty Phase
Local level
Infraction
6. What is discovery?
Precedent
Patronage
Loosely Coupled System
Evidence
7. What are the branches of federal law enforcement?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Mala Prohibita
Private Attorneys - Public Defenders
Information
8. What are the two ancient codes that contributed to our current legal system?
Discretion
Law of Hammurabi - Law of Moses
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
Patronage and Corruption
9. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?
Patronage and Corruption
Felony
Right away
Patrick Colquhoun
10. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?
6th Amendment
Judicial - Executive
Judiciary Act
The Penal Code
11. The Federal Court system was created through what?
Stare Decisis
Hoover
Constitutional Law
Judiciary Act
12. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?
830.1
Stare Decisis
Drug Violations - White Collar Crimes
Very inactive
13. What is the highest attorney at the federal level?
Attorney General
Statue of Winchester
State
90 Million
14. What is meant by inferior courts?
Parens Patriae
Lower Courts
Right away
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
15. Local law enforcement generally display shields on their badges. What do county law enforcement badges appear as?
Court Administrator
4th Amendment
Stars
U.S. Marshall's
16. What Penal Code section states that the court may refer to probation for a report?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
Infraction
1203(d) - Misdemeanor
Due Process
17. What court system was the same up until the period of the Civil War?
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
State/Local Court System
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
18. What are the two conflicting philosophies which talk of a desire for individual freedom and a crime free society?
Pretrial Hearing
Crime Control Due Process
King Henry II
Original Jurisdiction
19. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?
Intermediate Courts
Generalists
Patronage
Superior Court
20. What are the four Cs of the criminal justice system?
Incorrigibles
Courts - Cops - Citizens - Corrections
Hoover
Judiciary Act
21. Local California courts which handle misdemeanors - minor civil matters - and traffic violations are called what?
Evaluation
Sufficient evidence that a felony was committed - Should it go to a felony trial
Intermediate Courts
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
22. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?
Preliminary Hearing
Federal Court System
Statue of Winchester
4th Amendment
23. What major 1829 English law created a centralized urban police force in London?
London Metropolitan Police Act
Mala en Se
Serpico
Local - County - Tribal - State - Federal
24. The B.I.A. and the F.B.I. often provide support and assistance to what level of law enforcement agencies?
Tribal
Bill of Rights
Future laws not passed yet
Pendelton Act
25. Who was the Supreme Court's third chief justice - credited with making the court more proactive - effective - and powerful?
John Marshall
Retribution
Information
English Common Law
26. How is a jury panel selected?
NIBRS or National Incident Based Reporting System
Patronage and Corruption
Mala en Se
Challenge for Cause and Peremptory Challenges at a Jury Panel Hearing
27. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?
34
Trials
Courts
Tribal
28. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?
UCRS or Uniform Crime Reporting System
Trial
Continue to another date
The Penal Code
29. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?
17 -500
Discretion
Presentence Court Report
U.S. Postal Inspectors
30. What major 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case provided new guidelines in how police arrested and interrogated adult defendants?
50 - 25000
1 and 8
Local level
Miranda versus Arizona
31. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?
1977 Dixon Bill
Precedent
State Supreme Court
State/Local Court System
32. What is the first hearing or court appearance for all cases?
Military Police - Tribal Police = Civilian Federal Law Enforcement
17 -500
Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War
Arrangement
33. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?
Sheriff
State
The Penal Code
State Supreme Court
34. For a felony matter to leave a Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction - what special hearing must it go to?
Trial Court of Limited Jurisdiction
Preliminary Hearing
John Augustus
85%
35. What has disappeared among law enforcement agencies is this country?
Constitutional Law
County
5th Amendment
Patronage and Corruption
36. What is the Latin term that means an act being wrong because of customs - morals - practices - regulation - or law?
Conditional Sentence
Broken Windows
Potential for Incarceration
Mala Prohibita
37. What are the three duties of Deputy Probation officers in the court room?
Provide investigation services - Sentencing Recommendations - Provide Supervision
Original Jurisdiction
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
Stare Decisis
38. When there is a supposed legal error or discrepancy with a case - what type of hearing does it go to?
F.B.I.
Original Jurisdiction
Appeal
Dual System
39. What 1285 A.D. English law removed the emphasis on law enforcement away from the military and back onto the citizens?
Statue of Winchester
Limited or Reduced Capacity - Layers of Justice
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Presentence Court Report
40. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?
1382
Miranda versus Arizona
State
State/Local Court System
41. What west coast supreme court case in 1876 further established the philosophy of Parens Patriae and no due process for juveniles?
Local level
Misdemeanor
Ah Peen
Citizens - Cops - Courts - Corrections
42. What constitutes the major difference between a crime and illegal behavior?
1903
6th Amendment
Low Term - Mid Term - High Term
Potential for Incarceration
43. What document was eventually created in order to replace the Articles of Confederation?
U.S. Constitution
34
Discretion
Dual System
44. Generally speaking - what type of attorney is a prosecuting attorney?
1203(b)(1) - Felony
Local level
Government Attorney
Stamp Act of 1765
45. What current U.S. law enforcement position/title had its origins with the English legal system circa 1000 A.D.?
Trials
Sheriff or Shireeve
Judges - Prosecuting Attorneys - Defense Attorneys
U.S. Marshall's
46. In what year did California pass its juvenile justice system act known as Juvenile Court Act?
1903
14th Amendment
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
Quasi-Military - Strict Chain of Command
47. What concept attempts to alter future behaviors through threats of punishment and consequences?
Local level
Habeas Corpus
Deterrence
1382
48. What hearing has evidence presented and witnesses testify?
Punishment without trial
Judiciary Act
Change
Trial
49. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?
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50. What two things do military police entities possess?
Judicial System = Institutional System
D.E.A.or Drug Enforcement Agency
U.S. Supreme Court U.S. Court of Appeals U.S. Federal District Courts
U.S. Constitution