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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The authorized seizure of money - negotiable instruments - securities - or other things of value. Under federal antidrug laws - judicial representatives are authorized to seize all cash and goods.
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Probation officer
Preliminary Hearing
Forfeiture laws
2. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
Habeus corpus
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Pre-sentence report
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
3. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
6th Amendment
Santobello Vs. New York
Forfeiture laws
7th Amendment
4. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
mitigating circumstances
Enhancement
indeterminate sentencing
Suspended sentence
5. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Rules of evidence
Prisoner rights:
Preliminary Hearing
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
6. Made victim impact statements legal
Parole
Arraignment
Payne V. Tennessee
direct evidence
7. Prisoners challenged the constitutionality of state regulations covering censorship of prisoner mail on the grounds that they violated the prisoners free-speech rights. REstrictions on speech must be justified as the necessity for security and the ru
Determinate sentencing
Prosecutor
Procunier vs. Martinez
Lockyer v. Andrade:
8. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Criminal Complaint
Atkins v. Virginia
Cruz v. beto
contract attorneys
9. Grand Jury
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Suspended sentence
5th Amendment
Venue
10. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
Rules of evidence
3 level of security associated with prisons
victim impact statements
No lo contendre
11. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Stack Vs. Boyle
restitution
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Homeland security
12. 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
victim impact statements
Presentence investigation
direct evidence
Domestic terrorism
13. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
baston v. kentucky
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
In Re Winship
14. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
Atkins v. Virginia
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Court Jurisdiction
The man known as the first probation officer?
15. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Determinate sentencing
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Recidivism:
Real evidence
16. 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.
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Challenge for Cause
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Stack Vs. Boyle
17. 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.
Cause challenges:
Habeus corpus
support for plea bargaining:
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
18. Things that add on to sentencing
6th Amendment
Enhancement
Parolve v. probation
Morissey v. Brewer
19. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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20. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
The man known as the first probation officer?
Enhancement
21. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
aggravating circumstances
Suspended sentence
Atkins v. Virginia
Preliminary Hearing
22. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Wolff v. McDaniel
Criminal Complaint
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Court Jurisdiction
23. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Indictment
Gregg V. Georgia
aggravating circumstances
24. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
aggravating circumstances
direct evidence
USA Patriot Act
25. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Small Courts Claim
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Grand Jury
contract attorneys
26. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Small Courts Claim
Court apointed council
Voir Dire
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
27. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Arraignment
Presentence investigation
Mitigating Circumstances
Court Jurisdiction
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
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Forfeiture laws
aggravating circumstances
Parole
29. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Trial Proceedures
Presentence investigation
Indictment
Venue
30. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
No lo contendre
Court apointed council
mitigating circumstances
Explain the difference between probation and parole
31. Review court
Court Clerk
Morissey v. Brewer
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
mitigating circumstances
32. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Venue
Homeland security
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Gregg V. Georgia
33. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Stack Vs. Boyle
Court Jurisdiction
Goals of punishment
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
34. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Venue
Intermediate sentencing
Hudson v. Palmer
Runs juvenile hall
35. 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
Trial Proceedures
Court apointed council
support for plea bargaining:
36. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
Santobello Vs. New York
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Parolve v. probation
circunstancial evidence
37. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Morissey v. Brewer
Wolff v. McDaniel
Presentence investigation
3 level of security associated with prisons
38. 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
Recidivism:
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Against Plea bargaining:
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
39. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Santobello Vs. New York
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Court apointed council
40. Least used
contract attorneys
direct evidence
Balancing test
USA Patriot Act
41. 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
Grand Jury
Enhancement
Homeland security
Peremptory Challenges:
42. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Intermediate sentencing
Grand Jury
Plea Bargain
Real evidence
43. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
indeterminate sentencing
Venue
Discovery:
Suspended sentence
44. 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
Probation officer
Parens patriae
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
In Re Winship
45. 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
In Re Gault
6th Amendment
contract attorneys
Homeland security
46. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Recidivism:
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
contract attorneys
Real evidence
47. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Rules of evidence
Terrorism- Causes:
'Discover'
Discovery:
48. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Criminal Complaint
Grand Jury
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Terroism threat levels
49. 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
public defender
Forfeiture laws
support for plea bargaining:
Bailiff
50. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Suspended sentence
Aggravated Circumstances
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Intermediate sentencing