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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Plea Bargain
Hudson v. Palmer
Defense Attorney
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
2. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Balancing test
baston v. kentucky
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Terrorism- Causes:
3. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Challenges to the array
Plea Bargain
USA Patriot Act
3 level of security associated with prisons
4. 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
Peremptory Challenges:
Voir Dire
Forfeiture laws
5. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Rules of evidence
direct evidence
aggravating circumstances
6. 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.
Prosecutor
Court Clerk
Defense Attorney
circunstancial evidence
7. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Trial Proceedures
Arraignment
Against Plea bargaining:
Recidivism:
8. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Small Courts Claim
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Cruz v. beto
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
9. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Parole
Terroism threat levels
circunstancial evidence
Pre-sentence report
10. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
The man known as the first probation officer?
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Real evidence
Judge
11. 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
Intermediate sentencing
Parolve v. probation
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Peremptory Challenges:
12. Full time- salaried
Court apointed council
Peremptory Challenges:
public defender
The man known as the first probation officer?
13. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
Prisoner rights:
Challenges to the array
USA Patriot Act
baston v. kentucky
14. Things that add on to sentencing
restitution
Restitution
Enhancement
6th Amendment
15. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
'Discover'
indeterminate sentencing
restitution
16. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Santobello Vs. New York
Challenges to the array
Challenge for Cause
In Re Gault
17. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Voir Dire
Prosecutor
Challenge for Cause
Cause challenges:
18. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Trial Jury
Peremptory Challenges:
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
19. (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
Payne V. Tennessee
The man known as the first probation officer?
Discovery:
Parole
20. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
support for plea bargaining:
Recidivism:
USA Patriot Act
21. 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
Grand Jury
Cruz v. beto
indeterminate sentencing
public defender
22. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Enhancement
Probation
Voir Dire
23. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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24. Review court
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Preliminary Hearing
3 level of security associated with prisons
'Discover'
25. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
support for plea bargaining:
In Re Winship
Wolff v. McDaniel
Arraignment
26. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Against Plea bargaining:
Cause challenges:
'Discover'
27. 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
determinate sentencing
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Parolve v. probation
Santobello Vs. New York
28. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Criminal Complaint
Court Clerk
Prosecutor
Rules of evidence
29. Made victim impact statements legal
Santobello Vs. New York
Cause challenges:
Payne V. Tennessee
Domestic terrorism
30. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
direct evidence
Parens patriae
No lo contendre
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
31. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
7th Amendment
Santobello Vs. New York
Defense Attorney
Determinate sentencing
32. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
restitution
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Indictment
determinate sentencing
33. 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
Balancing test
Discovery:
Probation officer
Presentence investigation
34. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
support for plea bargaining:
Restitution
List three ways a person can be released from jail
35. Jury trial in civil cases
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
7th Amendment
Cruz v. beto
36. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
support for plea bargaining:
Cruz v. beto
Court apointed council
37. Fee based on state rate
Court apointed council
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Parole
Homeland security
38. 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
Indictment
Gregg V. Georgia
contract attorneys
39. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
7th Amendment
Stack Vs. Boyle
Aggravated Circumstances
Real evidence
40. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
USA Patriot Act
aggravating circumstances
Goals of punishment
41. Geographic area of the court
Real evidence
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Suspended sentence
Venue
42. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Mitigating Circumstances
Presentence investigation
circunstancial evidence
Stack Vs. Boyle
43. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Grand Jury
restitution
circunstancial evidence
Trial Proceedures
44. 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.
Prisoner rights:
determinate sentencing
Habeus corpus
Challenges to the array
45. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Rules of evidence
contract attorneys
indeterminate sentencing
46. 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
Rules of evidence
Real evidence
circunstancial evidence
Parens patriae
47. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Court Clerk
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Restitution
Recidivism:
48. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Terrorism- Causes:
Terroism threat levels
6th Amendment
49. Least used
3 level of security associated with prisons
contract attorneys
Domestic terrorism
Court Clerk
50. 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
support for plea bargaining:
Parolve v. probation
Restitution
In Re Winship