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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. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
Voir Dire
Court Jurisdiction
6th Amendment
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
2. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Santobello Vs. New York
Trial Proceedures
Plea Bargain
Payne V. Tennessee
3. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Small Courts Claim
Homeland security
Challenge for Cause
Suspended sentence
4. 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
Judge
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
restitution
5. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Discovery:
5th Amendment
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
6. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
Discovery:
Preliminary Hearing
Domestic terrorism
Parens patriae
7. Grand Jury
In Re Winship
5th Amendment
Voir Dire
indeterminate sentencing
8. (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
Court apointed council
Parole
Discovery:
Prosecutor
9. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
Cause challenges:
circunstancial evidence
Court Jurisdiction
restitution
10. Fee based on state rate
Trial Proceedures
Court apointed council
Terroism threat levels
Restitution
11. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Indictment
Trial Proceedures
Cause challenges:
12. Things that add on to sentencing
Domestic terrorism
Parole
Enhancement
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
13. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Defense Attorney
Trial Proceedures
contract attorneys
14. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Bailiff
Parole
victim impact statements
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
15. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Terroism threat levels
Trial Jury
Venue
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
16. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
Against Plea bargaining:
Terrorism- Causes:
Goals of punishment
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
17. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Stack Vs. Boyle
USA Patriot Act
Restitution
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
18. 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
Pre-sentence report
Challenges to the array
Procunier vs. Martinez
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
19. 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.
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Peremptory Challenges:
Forfeiture laws
Parolve v. probation
20. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
In Re Gault
Santobello Vs. New York
Venue
21. 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
Suspended sentence
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Procunier vs. Martinez
Against Plea bargaining:
22. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Small Courts Claim
Domestic terrorism
aggravating circumstances
Presentence investigation
23. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Gregg V. Georgia
5th Amendment
In Re Gault
24. A period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials.
Determinate sentencing
Court Jurisdiction
No lo contendre
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
25. A pre-sentence report is a legal term referring to the investigation into the history of person convicted of a crime before sentencing. Probation officer makes it.
Goals of punishment
Pre-sentence report
Peremptory Challenges:
Domestic terrorism
26. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Court Jurisdiction
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
circunstancial evidence
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
27. 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.
No lo contendre
Challenge for Cause
Enhancement
7th Amendment
28. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Intermediate sentencing
mitigating circumstances
7th Amendment
Wolff v. McDaniel
29. Nominated by the President
Bailiff
How does an individual become a federal judge
Preliminary Hearing
restitution
30. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Trial Proceedures
Preliminary Hearing
5th Amendment
List three ways a person can be released from jail
31. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Recidivism:
Criminal Complaint
Payne V. Tennessee
Pre-sentence report
32. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Parole
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Domestic terrorism
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
33. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
Bailiff
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Gregg V. Georgia
support for plea bargaining:
34. 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.
indeterminate sentencing
Recidivism:
Judge
victim impact statements
35. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
Intermediate sentencing
Probation officer
Probation
Discovery:
36. 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
restitution
Balancing test
Court Jurisdiction
Real evidence
37. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Cause challenges:
3 level of security associated with prisons
determinate sentencing
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
38. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Peremptory Challenges:
Prosecutor
Voir Dire
39. Probation
Procunier vs. Martinez
support for plea bargaining:
Small Courts Claim
Runs juvenile hall
40. 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
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Parolve v. probation
restitution
Presentence investigation
41. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
Indictment
Criminal Complaint
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Parens patriae
42. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
Bailiff
Preliminary Hearing
victim impact statements
Real evidence
43. Geographic area of the court
Stack Vs. Boyle
Venue
Trial Proceedures
How does an individual become a federal judge
44. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Trial Proceedures
Procunier vs. Martinez
restitution
Explain the difference between probation and parole
45. Least used
Challenge for Cause
contract attorneys
Court Clerk
Parolve v. probation
46. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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47. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
'Discover'
Aggravated Circumstances
Court Jurisdiction
Atkins v. Virginia
48. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
Gregg V. Georgia
mitigating circumstances
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
7th Amendment
49. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Mitigating Circumstances
5th Amendment
No lo contendre
Wolff v. McDaniel
50. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Real evidence
indeterminate sentencing
Cause challenges:
Peremptory Challenges: