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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. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Defense Attorney
Real evidence
Arraignment
2. 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
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
mitigating circumstances
Court apointed council
3. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
baston v. kentucky
Gregg V. Georgia
Balancing test
Against Plea bargaining:
4. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
Indictment
Roper v. Simmons
support for plea bargaining:
Enhancement
5. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Against Plea bargaining:
Trial Proceedures
Probation officer
Bailiff
6. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Real evidence
Gregg V. Georgia
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
USA Patriot Act
7. A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
Pre-sentence report
Arraignment
Judge
Payne V. Tennessee
8. 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
Judge
Parens patriae
Payne V. Tennessee
Against Plea bargaining:
9. 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
Domestic terrorism
restitution
Wolff v. McDaniel
aggravating circumstances
10. 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
Pre-sentence report
Domestic terrorism
Parole
Trial Proceedures
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
Trial Jury
Peremptory Challenges:
Venue
Discovery:
12. (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
Rules of evidence
Challenges to the array
Real evidence
13. 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.
Recidivism:
Judge
Stack Vs. Boyle
Cause challenges:
14. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
In Re Winship
Terroism threat levels
Real evidence
Parole
15. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Morissey v. Brewer
Prisoner rights:
baston v. kentucky
In Re Gault
16. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
'Discover'
Pre-sentence report
How does an individual become a federal judge
Prosecutor
17. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Wolff v. McDaniel
Challenge for Cause
Indictment
Probation officer
18. 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
Prosecutor
support for plea bargaining:
5th Amendment
Court apointed council
19. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Trial Proceedures
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Real evidence
Venue
20. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Morissey v. Brewer
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Forfeiture laws
21. 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.
Balancing test
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Prisoner rights:
22. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Court Jurisdiction
Domestic terrorism
23. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Discovery:
Voir Dire
Atkins v. Virginia
24. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
Mitigating Circumstances
victim impact statements
Balancing test
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
25. Jury trial in civil cases
7th Amendment
Runs juvenile hall
5th Amendment
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
26. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Defense Attorney
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
'Discover'
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
27. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
mitigating circumstances
contract attorneys
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
28. The lawyer representing the defendant
List three ways a person can be released from jail
public defender
Defense Attorney
direct evidence
29. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
6th Amendment
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Homeland security
Explain the difference between probation and parole
30. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
mitigating circumstances
Grand Jury
Trial Proceedures
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
31. 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.
Forfeiture laws
public defender
Challenge for Cause
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
32. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Aggravated Circumstances
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Judge
7th Amendment
33. Review court
contract attorneys
Cause challenges:
Indictment
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
34. 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
Challenges to the array
Preliminary Hearing
Rules of evidence
35. 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:
Santobello Vs. New York
Trial Jury
Peremptory Challenges:
36. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Challenges to the array
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Atkins v. Virginia
Probation officer
37. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates
Small Courts Claim
USA Patriot Act
circunstancial evidence
Payne V. Tennessee
38. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Peremptory Challenges:
direct evidence
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
In Re Gault
39. 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
Atkins v. Virginia
Indictment
Roper v. Simmons
40. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Mitigating Circumstances
direct evidence
41. Probation
determinate sentencing
Runs juvenile hall
Restitution
USA Patriot Act
42. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Parolve v. probation
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Criminal Complaint
Hudson v. Palmer
43. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Homeland security
Discovery:
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
44. 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
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Procunier vs. Martinez
Indictment
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
45. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Suspended sentence
The man known as the first probation officer?
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
victim impact statements
46. John Augustus
Payne V. Tennessee
Wolff v. McDaniel
List three ways a person can be released from jail
The man known as the first probation officer?
47. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
3 level of security associated with prisons
Stack Vs. Boyle
indeterminate sentencing
No lo contendre
48. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Domestic terrorism
Court Jurisdiction
Habeus corpus
Aggravated Circumstances
49. 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
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Restitution
Hudson v. Palmer
Balancing test
50. Least used
contract attorneys
Arraignment
Parolve v. probation
Morissey v. Brewer