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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A goal of criminal sentencing that attempts to make the victim whole again. a court requirement that an accused or convicted offender pay money or provide services to the victim of the cimre or provie services to the community
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
restitution
No lo contendre
Defense Attorney
2. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Criminal Complaint
Court apointed council
Domestic terrorism
3. Criminals recieve lighter/easier punishments- nota true sentence- endangers the correct legal outcome. It's coercion- bluffing- violation of human rights- prosecutors bluff and defendants plead to things they didn't do out of fear
Against Plea bargaining:
Restitution
baston v. kentucky
contract attorneys
4. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
baston v. kentucky
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Real evidence
support for plea bargaining:
5. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Goals of punishment
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Homeland security
Parens patriae
6. A common law principle that allows the state to assume a parental role and to take custody of a child when he or she becomes delinquent - is abandoned or is need of care taht the natural parents are unable or unwilling to provide
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
6th Amendment
Court Clerk
Parens patriae
7. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
6th Amendment
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Court Clerk
Plea Bargain
8. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Challenges to the array
Small Courts Claim
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
In Re Gault
9. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
Santobello Vs. New York
support for plea bargaining:
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Preliminary Hearing
10. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Court Clerk
Preliminary Hearing
Plea Bargain
Enhancement
11. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
USA Patriot Act
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
contract attorneys
3 level of security associated with prisons
12. Decides guilt or innocence
contract attorneys
Trial Jury
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
6th Amendment
13. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Atkins v. Virginia
Trial Proceedures
'Discover'
Judge
14. Officers of the probation office of a court. Probation officer duties include conducting presentence investigations - preparing presentence reports on convicted defendants - and supervising released defendants.
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
baston v. kentucky
Arraignment
Probation officer
15. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
7th Amendment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Restitution
No lo contendre
16. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Rules of evidence
Judge
Challenges to the array
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
17. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Domestic terrorism
Real evidence
Presentence investigation
indeterminate sentencing
18. A pre-sentence report is a legal term referring to the investigation into the history of person convicted of a crime before sentencing. Probation officer makes it.
Trial Proceedures
Pre-sentence report
support for plea bargaining:
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
19. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
Trial Jury
Prosecutor
Judge
mitigating circumstances
20. A fedral law enacted in response to terrorist attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon on September 11 -2001. The law officially titled the Uniting and Strengthening America by providing Appropriate Tools Required to intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act -
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Parolve v. probation
USA Patriot Act
Real evidence
21. A model of criminal punishment in which an offender is given a fixed term of imprisonment that they may be reduced by good time or gain taim. all offendors convicted of the same crime will reciee the same punishment
determinate sentencing
Payne V. Tennessee
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Lockyer v. Andrade:
22. Investigation into the history of the person convicted of a crime to see if tehere are an extenuating circumstances which would ameliorate or increase sentence
Court Jurisdiction
Aggravated Circumstances
Presentence investigation
circunstancial evidence
23. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
5th Amendment
Discovery:
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Suspended sentence
24. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates
Roper v. Simmons
Plea Bargain
circunstancial evidence
Judge
25. A principle developed by the courts and applied to the corrections arena by pell v. procunier that attempts to weigh the rights of an individual as guaranteed by the Constituion - against the authority of states of make laws or to otherwise restrict
indeterminate sentencing
Challenges to the array
restitution
Balancing test
26. Less courts - less judges - prompt and final disposition of most cases - reduces time/cost in jail - reduces time spent free on bail- dangerous - serious offenders move more quickly into rehab - counseling - etc. - assures that the guilty will not be
Against Plea bargaining:
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Habeus corpus
support for plea bargaining:
27. Least used
contract attorneys
'Discover'
Bailiff
Court Clerk
28. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
Discovery:
Parole
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Grand Jury
29. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
mitigating circumstances
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Habeus corpus
Roper v. Simmons
30. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Court Jurisdiction
Real evidence
5th Amendment
Probation officer
31. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Determinate sentencing
Habeus corpus
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Suspended sentence
32. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Discovery:
support for plea bargaining:
victim impact statements
33. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Trial Jury
baston v. kentucky
Aggravated Circumstances
Roper v. Simmons
34. The right to challenge a potential juror without discling the reason for the challenge. Used to eliminate juries individuals who although they express no bias are thought to be capable of swaying the jury in an undesirable way
5th Amendment
Enhancement
Probation officer
Peremptory Challenges:
35. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
direct evidence
Restitution
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Payne V. Tennessee
36. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Terrorism- Causes:
Plea Bargain
aggravating circumstances
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
37. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Voir Dire
7th Amendment
Mitigating Circumstances
Aggravated Circumstances
38. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Criminal Complaint
Rules of evidence
Homeland security
Parolve v. probation
39. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Morissey v. Brewer
Discovery:
7th Amendment
40. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Runs juvenile hall
Pre-sentence report
Voir Dire
Restitution
41. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
USA Patriot Act
circunstancial evidence
Defense Attorney
Arraignment
42. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Terrorism- Causes:
Judge
Real evidence
Runs juvenile hall
43. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Grand Jury
baston v. kentucky
aggravating circumstances
Rules of evidence
44. The unlawful use of force or violence by an individual or a group that is based and operatues entirely within the U.S. and its territories - acts without foreign direction and directs its activites agaits elements of the us government or population
Bailiff
5th Amendment
victim impact statements
Domestic terrorism
45. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
3 level of security associated with prisons
Small Courts Claim
Runs juvenile hall
public defender
46. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Goals of punishment
Challenges to the array
Criminal Complaint
47. Made victim impact statements legal
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Payne V. Tennessee
Grand Jury
Presentence investigation
48. Review court
7th Amendment
Court Clerk
The man known as the first probation officer?
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
49. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Parole
Criminal Complaint
Bailiff
mitigating circumstances
50. The act of a person repeating of an undesirable behavior after thay have either experienced negative consequences of that behavior or have been treated or trained to extinguish that behavior.
Recidivism:
public defender
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest