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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
circunstancial evidence
Challenge for Cause
USA Patriot Act
restitution
2. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
Criminal Complaint
Habeus corpus
Grand Jury
3 level of security associated with prisons
3. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Aggravated Circumstances
Roper v. Simmons
Santobello Vs. New York
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
4. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
Goals of punishment
Trial Jury
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
5. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
indeterminate sentencing
Stack Vs. Boyle
Voir Dire
No lo contendre
6. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Venue
Mitigating Circumstances
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Parole
7. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Balancing test
aggravating circumstances
Grand Jury
List three ways a person can be released from jail
8. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Real evidence
Prosecutor
Morissey v. Brewer
Cause challenges:
9. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Aggravated Circumstances
public defender
USA Patriot Act
Wolff v. McDaniel
10. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
Real evidence
victim impact statements
direct evidence
Suspended sentence
11. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
'Discover'
Hudson v. Palmer
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Morissey v. Brewer
12. 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.
Peremptory Challenges:
Cruz v. beto
How does an individual become a federal judge
Recidivism:
13. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Hudson v. Palmer
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Forfeiture laws
3 level of security associated with prisons
14. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Real evidence
Enhancement
Criminal Complaint
restitution
15. Full time- salaried
Balancing test
Challenges to the array
Payne V. Tennessee
public defender
16. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Suspended sentence
Arraignment
restitution
Terrorism- Causes:
17. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Suspended sentence
Rules of evidence
restitution
18. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Restitution
Defense Attorney
Stack Vs. Boyle
Homeland security
19. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
direct evidence
Prosecutor
Court Jurisdiction
'Discover'
20. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Parolve v. probation
Challenge for Cause
21. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
mitigating circumstances
Restitution
Probation
Grand Jury
22. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Procunier vs. Martinez
Real evidence
Atkins v. Virginia
Determinate sentencing
23. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Runs juvenile hall
3 level of security associated with prisons
Procunier vs. Martinez
Lockyer v. Andrade:
24. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Hudson v. Palmer
Intermediate sentencing
Forfeiture laws
25. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
5th Amendment
Bailiff
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
7th Amendment
26. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Prosecutor
aggravating circumstances
Hudson v. Palmer
In Re Winship
27. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
List three ways a person can be released from jail
restitution
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
28. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
Bailiff
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Preliminary Hearing
circunstancial evidence
29. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Real evidence
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Probation officer
Explain the difference between probation and parole
30. Least used
Peremptory Challenges:
contract attorneys
Pre-sentence report
Discovery:
31. 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
Presentence investigation
Gregg V. Georgia
Lockyer v. Andrade:
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
32. 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.
Probation
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Arraignment
Prisoner rights:
33. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Terroism threat levels
Roper v. Simmons
Homeland security
Against Plea bargaining:
34. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Small Courts Claim
Bailiff
Challenge for Cause
5th Amendment
35. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Homeland security
In Re Winship
36. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Indictment
restitution
Forfeiture laws
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
37. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Pre-sentence report
In Re Gault
Discovery:
Terrorism- Causes:
38. 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.
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
In Re Gault
Habeus corpus
39. John Augustus
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Cause challenges:
Probation
The man known as the first probation officer?
40. Decides guilt or innocence
5th Amendment
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Stack Vs. Boyle
Trial Jury
41. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Gregg V. Georgia
7th Amendment
Homeland security
The man known as the first probation officer?
42. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
Grand Jury
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
restitution
support for plea bargaining:
43. 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
Against Plea bargaining:
Balancing test
Probation officer
Suspended sentence
44. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
victim impact statements
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Wolff v. McDaniel
45. 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.
direct evidence
Forfeiture laws
In Re Gault
Rules of evidence
46. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
6th Amendment
7th Amendment
Mitigating Circumstances
aggravating circumstances
47. 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
Restitution
Runs juvenile hall
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
In Re Gault
48. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Domestic terrorism
'Discover'
Plea Bargain
49. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
Court Clerk
Probation
Morissey v. Brewer
Intermediate sentencing
50. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Parolve v. probation
Arraignment
indeterminate sentencing
Explain the difference between probation and parole