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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A legal term for judges delaying of the sentence after they have been found guilty - in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation
Determinate sentencing
Suspended sentence
aggravating circumstances
Santobello Vs. New York
2. Geographic area of the court
Venue
Defense Attorney
Stack Vs. Boyle
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
3. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Forfeiture laws
Discovery:
Wolff v. McDaniel
victim impact statements
4. 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
Forfeiture laws
Challenges to the array
Domestic terrorism
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
5. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
List three ways a person can be released from jail
In Re Gault
Hudson v. Palmer
Prisoner rights:
6. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
No lo contendre
Suspended sentence
Court Jurisdiction
Plea Bargain
7. Full time- salaried
contract attorneys
Atkins v. Virginia
public defender
Venue
8. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
'Discover'
Court Jurisdiction
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Against Plea bargaining:
9. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Criminal Complaint
Real evidence
Habeus corpus
10. 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.
3 level of security associated with prisons
'Discover'
Pre-sentence report
direct evidence
11. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Mitigating Circumstances
'Discover'
Trial Jury
12. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
13. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Bailiff
determinate sentencing
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Lockyer v. Andrade:
14. John Augustus
Preliminary Hearing
Parens patriae
The man known as the first probation officer?
Balancing test
15. Made victim impact statements legal
Habeus corpus
Payne V. Tennessee
Recidivism:
List three ways a person can be released from jail
16. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Goals of punishment
aggravating circumstances
Homeland security
17. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Venue
Goals of punishment
restitution
3 level of security associated with prisons
18. Nominated by the President
Goals of punishment
How does an individual become a federal judge
Against Plea bargaining:
victim impact statements
19. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
Recidivism:
Cause challenges:
Trial Jury
Morissey v. Brewer
20. Decides guilt or innocence
Trial Jury
contract attorneys
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
6th Amendment
21. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
In Re Gault
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
aggravating circumstances
22. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Court Jurisdiction
7th Amendment
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
23. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
In Re Winship
Homeland security
Pre-sentence report
Cause challenges:
24. Held that juveniles accused of crimes in a delinquency proceeding must be afforded many of the same due process rights as adults - such as the right to timely notification of the cahrges - the right to confront witnesses - the right against self-incr
Recidivism:
Stack Vs. Boyle
In Re Gault
Mitigating Circumstances
25. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
3 level of security associated with prisons
Small Courts Claim
Presentence investigation
Gregg V. Georgia
26. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Domestic terrorism
27. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Peremptory Challenges:
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
victim impact statements
28. Things that add on to sentencing
'Discover'
Enhancement
5th Amendment
Against Plea bargaining:
29. 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
Terrorism- Causes:
Pre-sentence report
Balancing test
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
30. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Venue
Balancing test
Explain the difference between probation and parole
How does an individual become a federal judge
31. 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.
Explain the difference between probation and parole
direct evidence
Forfeiture laws
Court Clerk
32. 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.
3 level of security associated with prisons
baston v. kentucky
Prisoner rights:
Atkins v. Virginia
33. Grand Jury
Mitigating Circumstances
Preliminary Hearing
5th Amendment
Morissey v. Brewer
34. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
indeterminate sentencing
Morissey v. Brewer
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Parole
35. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Forfeiture laws
Terroism threat levels
Court apointed council
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
36. Held that when a juvenile is charged with an act taht would be a crime if committed by an adult - every element of the offense must be proved beyond reasonable doubt
Forfeiture laws
In Re Winship
Arraignment
Defense Attorney
37. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Prosecutor
The man known as the first probation officer?
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
38. Review court
Challenges to the array
Habeus corpus
Atkins v. Virginia
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
39. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Aggravated Circumstances
Runs juvenile hall
Stack Vs. Boyle
Habeus corpus
40. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
Presentence investigation
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Peremptory Challenges:
Goals of punishment
41. Jury trial in civil cases
7th Amendment
Rules of evidence
Probation
Prisoner rights:
42. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
7th Amendment
Prosecutor
Gregg V. Georgia
Indictment
43. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Mitigating Circumstances
Hudson v. Palmer
3 level of security associated with prisons
44. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
The man known as the first probation officer?
Peremptory Challenges:
USA Patriot Act
Parolve v. probation
45. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Criminal Complaint
Aggravated Circumstances
Stack Vs. Boyle
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
46. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Atkins v. Virginia
Preliminary Hearing
Pre-sentence report
Bailiff
47. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Atkins v. Virginia
Challenges to the array
Suspended sentence
48. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
Against Plea bargaining:
Enhancement
direct evidence
indeterminate sentencing
49. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Mitigating Circumstances
Restitution
support for plea bargaining:
Prosecutor
50. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
Enhancement
Terrorism- Causes:
6th Amendment
Defense Attorney