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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Goals of punishment
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Prisoner rights:
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
2. Decides guilt or innocence
Determinate sentencing
Morissey v. Brewer
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Trial Jury
3. Least used
No lo contendre
Cruz v. beto
Goals of punishment
contract attorneys
4. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Prosecutor
5. John Augustus
baston v. kentucky
Grand Jury
The man known as the first probation officer?
support for plea bargaining:
6. 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
Preliminary Hearing
Presentence investigation
6th Amendment
Intermediate sentencing
7. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Stack Vs. Boyle
Roper v. Simmons
Preliminary Hearing
In Re Gault
8. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
3 level of security associated with prisons
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Wolff v. McDaniel
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
9. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Trial Proceedures
Probation officer
10. Excusing a juror from a trial for a stated - specific reason - such as the juror knows the parties or witnesses in a case. Each side has an unlimited number of challenges for cause.
determinate sentencing
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Grand Jury
Challenge for Cause
11. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Lockyer v. Andrade:
baston v. kentucky
Gregg V. Georgia
Prosecutor
12. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Discovery:
Habeus corpus
Parens patriae
Procunier vs. Martinez
13. (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
Arraignment
Parole
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Lockyer v. Andrade:
14. 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
USA Patriot Act
contract attorneys
Against Plea bargaining:
Judge
15. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Indictment
Explain the difference between probation and parole
How does an individual become a federal judge
aggravating circumstances
16. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
mitigating circumstances
support for plea bargaining:
Grand Jury
17. 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
Balancing test
Mitigating Circumstances
Rules of evidence
Suspended sentence
18. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Santobello Vs. New York
Indictment
Stack Vs. Boyle
19. 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
Challenge for Cause
Domestic terrorism
Wolff v. McDaniel
determinate sentencing
20. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Procunier vs. Martinez
Grand Jury
support for plea bargaining:
Atkins v. Virginia
21. Things that add on to sentencing
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Enhancement
Runs juvenile hall
List three ways a person can be released from jail
22. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Voir Dire
Aggravated Circumstances
Stack Vs. Boyle
Cause challenges:
23. 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
Real evidence
support for plea bargaining:
baston v. kentucky
Court Jurisdiction
24. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Forfeiture laws
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Plea Bargain
Determinate sentencing
25. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
The man known as the first probation officer?
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Restitution
26. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Morissey v. Brewer
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Restitution
27. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Pre-sentence report
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
No lo contendre
28. Jury trial in civil cases
7th Amendment
Wolff v. McDaniel
Real evidence
Intermediate sentencing
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
Discovery:
Roper v. Simmons
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Balancing test
30. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
List three ways a person can be released from jail
direct evidence
Indictment
contract attorneys
31. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
Runs juvenile hall
Parens patriae
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Presentence investigation
32. 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 -
USA Patriot Act
Cause challenges:
Parole
5th Amendment
33. 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.
Peremptory Challenges:
support for plea bargaining:
Probation officer
Mitigating Circumstances
34. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
indeterminate sentencing
7th Amendment
Intermediate sentencing
USA Patriot Act
35. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Court Clerk
contract attorneys
3 level of security associated with prisons
36. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Prisoner rights:
7th Amendment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
37. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Morissey v. Brewer
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
determinate sentencing
In Re Winship
38. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Probation officer
Challenges to the array
Enhancement
Morissey v. Brewer
39. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Court Jurisdiction
Presentence investigation
Bailiff
Terrorism- Causes:
40. Full time- salaried
public defender
Balancing test
Terroism threat levels
Payne V. Tennessee
41. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
Roper v. Simmons
Criminal Complaint
Real evidence
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
42. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Voir Dire
aggravating circumstances
43. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Gregg V. Georgia
Parolve v. probation
determinate sentencing
44. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
Cause challenges:
aggravating circumstances
In Re Gault
Domestic terrorism
45. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Habeus corpus
Real evidence
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
46. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Procunier vs. Martinez
direct evidence
Probation officer
Terroism threat levels
47. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Venue
Presentence investigation
Aggravated Circumstances
Against Plea bargaining:
48. 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
baston v. kentucky
Probation officer
restitution
Arraignment
49. Grand Jury
5th Amendment
Forfeiture laws
aggravating circumstances
mitigating circumstances
50. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Balancing test
public defender
Atkins v. Virginia
Gregg V. Georgia