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Criminal Justice 101

Subject : law
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1. What amendment discusses protection from unreasonable searches?






2. What penal code states that a felony must go to trial within 60 days of the second arrangement unless time lines are waived?






3. What are state Courts of Appeals also called?






4. Jail time - restitution - contact restrictions - drug testing - searches and seizures - employment verification - and counseling can be terms of what?






5. What type of hearing does a felony case go to after arrangement?






6. Both Trial Courts fall under what 'umbrella' Court System?






7. Who are the three main players in the Criminal Justice system?






8. Where does the U.S. Supreme Court hear cases from?






9. Other then UCRS and NIBRS - what entities compile information about crime in the country?






10. What are the three branches of government enchanced or created by the U.S. Constitution?






11. What Latin term allowed the Magna Carta to be enhanced and reinforced and means to adhere to what has come before?






12. Local California courts which handle felonies and major civil matters are called what?






13. What is the Latin term that literally means - 'to adhere to what has come before'?






14. What is discovery?






15. What does the U.S. Court of Appeals not have regarding what cases to hear?






16. What 1770 shooting incident heightened tensions between Boston colonists and newly arrived British soldiers?






17. What is meant by inferior courts?






18. What penal code section is used to waive time lines during a trial?






19. How many cases go to the local court level each year?






20. What are the two main functions of criminal courts?


21. What are the two general characteristics evident among most law enforcement agencies?






22. How is a jury panel selected?






23. Our criminal justice system tries to maintain a balance between which two conflicting models/ideologies?






24. What percent of the time will a judge go with what a presentence court report says?






25. What criminal statistical agency or method was created in 1930?






26. What types of law enforcement agency is influenced by federal and territorial sovereignty?






27. What current California legal code did the Law of Hammurabi and the Law of Moses contribute to?






28. What English king circa 1154 A.D. sent representatives out to the eight English 'regions' in order to organize some type of common law?






29. What are the five levels of force among agencies?






30. What two factors does a probation officer consider when writing the presentence report?






31. What was the name of the article which encouraged law enforcement not just to focus on crime - but the social factors of crime?






32. Besides the U.S. Marshall Service - what is the other oldest federal law enforcement agency?






33. What is a trial where there is no jury and the verdict is given by the judge?






34. What federal law enforcement agency was created in 1973 and currently has over 5 -000 agents spread around the world?






35. What word represents the ability of criminal justice players to make independent decisions?






36. What is the most important C or level of the criminal justice system?






37. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified - what type of court system did the U.S. realize it needed to have?






38. What does the Court of Appeals not possess?






39. What two additional branches of government did the Constitution add to government?






40. What hearing determines in an individual receives the death penalty?






41. What is a crime punishable by jail - fines or prison?






42. Which California code section gives police and corrections their 'peace officer powers'?






43. Indeterminate sentencing was a mainstay within the California juvenile justice system until what year?






44. What do the majority of cases going into the U.S. District Court involve?






45. The Federal Court system was created through what?






46. What Latin term means 'you have the body'?






47. In Orange County - what type of prosecuting attorneys handle the day to day issues in the court room?






48. What 1838 Ohio State Supreme Court Case established the concept of Parens Patriae and no need for due process in juvenile matters?






49. What does O.R. mean?






50. What was the missing component of those persons working with in the Birth of Probation Model circa 1841?