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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Parole
Forfeiture laws
Morissey v. Brewer
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
2. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Voir Dire
Homeland security
Terrorism- Causes:
Court apointed council
3. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Indictment
Intermediate sentencing
baston v. kentucky
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
4. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
mitigating circumstances
Aggravated Circumstances
Trial Proceedures
Court Clerk
5. 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.
Homeland security
mitigating circumstances
Forfeiture laws
indeterminate sentencing
6. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
Forfeiture laws
determinate sentencing
Presentence investigation
No lo contendre
7. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Balancing test
Stack Vs. Boyle
7th Amendment
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
8. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Prosecutor
Gregg V. Georgia
Defense Attorney
aggravating circumstances
9. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
Intermediate sentencing
victim impact statements
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Discovery:
10. John Augustus
Payne V. Tennessee
The man known as the first probation officer?
Balancing test
Small Courts Claim
11. 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
Parens patriae
3 level of security associated with prisons
'Discover'
support for plea bargaining:
12. 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
Criminal Complaint
In Re Gault
Challenges to the array
Voir Dire
13. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Santobello Vs. New York
Hudson v. Palmer
Habeus corpus
14. Geographic area of the court
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Real evidence
Venue
Homeland security
15. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
USA Patriot Act
Wolff v. McDaniel
In Re Winship
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
16. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
7th Amendment
Bailiff
indeterminate sentencing
Aggravated Circumstances
17. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Small Courts Claim
indeterminate sentencing
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
18. Nominated by the President
Prosecutor
Atkins v. Virginia
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
How does an individual become a federal judge
19. 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
Pre-sentence report
Recidivism:
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
20. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Atkins v. Virginia
Court Clerk
Court Jurisdiction
Aggravated Circumstances
21. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
direct evidence
Hudson v. Palmer
Small Courts Claim
Voir Dire
22. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Restitution
contract attorneys
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Parens patriae
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
Prisoner rights:
No lo contendre
Cruz v. beto
Challenges to the array
24. 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
baston v. kentucky
6th Amendment
Homeland security
Procunier vs. Martinez
25. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
Parolve v. probation
Domestic terrorism
Terrorism- Causes:
Runs juvenile hall
26. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Criminal Complaint
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Grand Jury
Recidivism:
27. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Discovery:
Lockyer v. Andrade:
victim impact statements
direct evidence
28. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
support for plea bargaining:
Challenge for Cause
mitigating circumstances
29. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Suspended sentence
Pre-sentence report
Roper v. Simmons
Real evidence
30. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Presentence investigation
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
USA Patriot Act
List three ways a person can be released from jail
31. 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
Trial Jury
3 level of security associated with prisons
Pre-sentence report
In Re Winship
32. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
Goals of punishment
Enhancement
restitution
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
33. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
baston v. kentucky
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Court apointed council
34. Decides guilt or innocence
Habeus corpus
Trial Jury
circunstancial evidence
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
35. Things that add on to sentencing
Enhancement
Real evidence
Domestic terrorism
Terrorism- Causes:
36. 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
Trial Proceedures
Parole
Morissey v. Brewer
37. Made victim impact statements legal
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
restitution
Payne V. Tennessee
Real evidence
38. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
baston v. kentucky
List three ways a person can be released from jail
public defender
Terroism threat levels
39. 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
Peremptory Challenges:
Judge
Goals of punishment
Pre-sentence report
40. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
Determinate sentencing
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
aggravating circumstances
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
41. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Grand Jury
5th Amendment
Pre-sentence report
aggravating circumstances
42. (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
restitution
Peremptory Challenges:
No lo contendre
43. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Real evidence
Criminal Complaint
6th Amendment
Probation officer
44. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Determinate sentencing
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Prisoner rights:
Wolff v. McDaniel
45. 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
In Re Winship
How does an individual become a federal judge
Against Plea bargaining:
restitution
46. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Parolve v. probation
Judge
Terrorism- Causes:
Rules of evidence
47. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Lockyer v. Andrade:
In Re Winship
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Habeus corpus
48. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Court apointed council
Terrorism- Causes:
Bailiff
Probation
49. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
The man known as the first probation officer?
Aggravated Circumstances
7th Amendment
Plea Bargain
50. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Court Jurisdiction
Restitution
Runs juvenile hall
Goals of punishment