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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Determinate sentencing
Peremptory Challenges:
Habeus corpus
Morissey v. Brewer
2. 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.
Judge
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Forfeiture laws
Arraignment
3. 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
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Mitigating Circumstances
determinate sentencing
4. John Augustus
Voir Dire
The man known as the first probation officer?
Against Plea bargaining:
Atkins v. Virginia
5. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
USA Patriot Act
Challenges to the array
Roper v. Simmons
Grand Jury
6. Probation
support for plea bargaining:
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Runs juvenile hall
Trial Jury
7. 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.
Court apointed council
Venue
Probation officer
Atkins v. Virginia
8. 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
Santobello Vs. New York
Restitution
Domestic terrorism
Plea Bargain
9. Least used
Probation officer
Terrorism- Causes:
Grand Jury
contract attorneys
10. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Venue
3 level of security associated with prisons
Aggravated Circumstances
Habeus corpus
11. The lawyer representing the defendant
Defense Attorney
5th Amendment
Cause challenges:
List three ways a person can be released from jail
12. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
direct evidence
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
List three ways a person can be released from jail
13. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
5th Amendment
Santobello Vs. New York
Homeland security
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
14. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Challenge for Cause
Homeland security
Goals of punishment
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
15. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
5th Amendment
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Determinate sentencing
mitigating circumstances
16. 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
Preliminary Hearing
Peremptory Challenges:
Wolff v. McDaniel
Recidivism:
17. 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.
direct evidence
Court Clerk
Defense Attorney
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
18. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Rules of evidence
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Criminal Complaint
Arraignment
19. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Morissey v. Brewer
Court apointed council
Pre-sentence report
mitigating circumstances
20. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Determinate sentencing
Preliminary Hearing
Goals of punishment
Roper v. Simmons
21. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
victim impact statements
Probation officer
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
contract attorneys
22. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
6th Amendment
restitution
Terrorism- Causes:
Forfeiture laws
23. Inmates have to be given a reasonable opportunity to pursue their religious faiths - also visits can be banned is such visits constitute threats to society
Cruz v. beto
Parolve v. probation
Hudson v. Palmer
Pre-sentence report
24. 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
Probation
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
restitution
Balancing test
25. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
List three ways a person can be released from jail
direct evidence
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
'Discover'
26. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Arraignment
Terroism threat levels
6th Amendment
Payne V. Tennessee
27. 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.
Explain the difference between probation and parole
How does an individual become a federal judge
direct evidence
Recidivism:
28. 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.
Challenge for Cause
Trial Proceedures
restitution
Payne V. Tennessee
29. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Peremptory Challenges:
Court Jurisdiction
Explain the difference between probation and parole
30. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Runs juvenile hall
5th Amendment
6th Amendment
Rules of evidence
31. Things that add on to sentencing
Mitigating Circumstances
Challenge for Cause
Enhancement
Determinate sentencing
32. (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
Cause challenges:
Real evidence
Roper v. Simmons
33. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Trial Proceedures
mitigating circumstances
Payne V. Tennessee
Presentence investigation
34. Full time- salaried
public defender
Restitution
Payne V. Tennessee
Challenges to the array
35. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Goals of punishment
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Explain the difference between probation and parole
36. 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:
Hudson v. Palmer
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Balancing test
37. 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.
public defender
Against Plea bargaining:
Prisoner rights:
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
38. Review court
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Parolve v. probation
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Voir Dire
39. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Payne V. Tennessee
Challenges to the array
Wolff v. McDaniel
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
40. 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
Parole
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Goals of punishment
Suspended sentence
41. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Discovery:
Prosecutor
Homeland security
42. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Intermediate sentencing
Balancing test
Recidivism:
43. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Criminal Complaint
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Restitution
Real evidence
44. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Indictment
Roper v. Simmons
Against Plea bargaining:
baston v. kentucky
45. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Stack Vs. Boyle
Grand Jury
Santobello Vs. New York
Challenges to the array
46. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Recidivism:
Morissey v. Brewer
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Indictment
47. Made victim impact statements legal
Lockyer v. Andrade:
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Payne V. Tennessee
Rules of evidence
48. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
baston v. kentucky
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
aggravating circumstances
In Re Winship
49. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Domestic terrorism
Hudson v. Palmer
No lo contendre
6th Amendment
50. Jury trial in civil cases
7th Amendment
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Judge
Trial Proceedures