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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 formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
7th Amendment
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Restitution
Indictment
2. Least used
victim impact statements
Real evidence
contract attorneys
Rules of evidence
3. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
Cruz v. beto
Parens patriae
Morissey v. Brewer
Preliminary Hearing
4. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Cause challenges:
Determinate sentencing
Bailiff
5th Amendment
5. 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.
determinate sentencing
Trial Proceedures
Pre-sentence report
Judge
6. 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
Terrorism- Causes:
Peremptory Challenges:
Challenge for Cause
Indictment
7. 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
support for plea bargaining:
Preliminary Hearing
Probation officer
Criminal Complaint
8. A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
Procunier vs. Martinez
Judge
Gregg V. Georgia
Probation officer
9. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Small Courts Claim
Hudson v. Palmer
Voir Dire
Against Plea bargaining:
10. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Cause challenges:
baston v. kentucky
Parole
Small Courts Claim
11. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Determinate sentencing
Cause challenges:
Court Jurisdiction
12. Retain 1st amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner- have rights - much the same as people who are not incarcerated. Conditional rather than absolute rights. The balancing test.
Prisoner rights:
Terrorism- Causes:
aggravating circumstances
Explain the difference between probation and parole
13. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Stack Vs. Boyle
3 level of security associated with prisons
Against Plea bargaining:
indeterminate sentencing
14. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Criminal Complaint
Recidivism:
Gregg V. Georgia
Trial Jury
15. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Pre-sentence report
Mitigating Circumstances
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Challenges to the array
16. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
aggravating circumstances
Challenges to the array
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Restitution
17. 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
Venue
Probation
No lo contendre
18. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
No lo contendre
direct evidence
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Plea Bargain
19. Made victim impact statements legal
Terroism threat levels
Payne V. Tennessee
Terrorism- Causes:
Explain the difference between probation and parole
20. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Small Courts Claim
5th Amendment
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
21. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Court Jurisdiction
Presentence investigation
5th Amendment
Wolff v. McDaniel
22. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
Small Courts Claim
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Forfeiture laws
23. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
Determinate sentencing
Runs juvenile hall
Parole
List three ways a person can be released from jail
24. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
victim impact statements
Parolve v. probation
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Suspended sentence
25. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Cause challenges:
Domestic terrorism
Real evidence
26. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
Against Plea bargaining:
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
6th Amendment
Roper v. Simmons
27. A writ whcih requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court. This ensure that a prisoner can be released form unlawful detention.
Parens patriae
indeterminate sentencing
Habeus corpus
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
28. (law) a conditional release from imprisonment that entitiles the person to serve the remainder of the sentence outside the prison as long as the terms of release are complied with
Parole
Forfeiture laws
Cause challenges:
Parolve v. probation
29. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
victim impact statements
Grand Jury
Plea Bargain
Homeland security
30. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Homeland security
Indictment
Preliminary Hearing
contract attorneys
31. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
Hudson v. Palmer
Probation
7th Amendment
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
32. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Challenge for Cause
Balancing test
Court apointed council
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
33. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Peremptory Challenges:
USA Patriot Act
Homeland security
Arraignment
34. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Grand Jury
Prosecutor
Roper v. Simmons
35. 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
Parolve v. probation
restitution
Challenges to the array
mitigating circumstances
36. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Terroism threat levels
Atkins v. Virginia
restitution
37. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
support for plea bargaining:
Rules of evidence
public defender
Restitution
38. Nominated by the President
Parole
How does an individual become a federal judge
Determinate sentencing
Arraignment
39. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Criminal Complaint
Judge
Against Plea bargaining:
Recidivism:
40. Jury trial in civil cases
7th Amendment
Real evidence
No lo contendre
Forfeiture laws
41. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
restitution
mitigating circumstances
Stack Vs. Boyle
Homeland security
42. An officer appointed by the judges of the court to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court - maintain court records - handle financial matters - and provide other administrative support to the court.
Court Clerk
'Discover'
Criminal Complaint
Terrorism- Causes:
43. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
USA Patriot Act
determinate sentencing
Stack Vs. Boyle
Forfeiture laws
44. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Terroism threat levels
Venue
6th Amendment
Explain the difference between probation and parole
45. Fee based on state rate
Court apointed council
Court Clerk
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Judge
46. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Arraignment
public defender
Trial Jury
Hudson v. Palmer
47. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Cruz v. beto
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Grand Jury
Runs juvenile hall
48. Full time- salaried
victim impact statements
Probation
public defender
'Discover'
49. 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.
Presentence investigation
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Recidivism:
aggravating circumstances
50. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
circunstancial evidence
Parolve v. probation
Against Plea bargaining:
Roper v. Simmons