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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Made victim impact statements legal
Runs juvenile hall
Court Clerk
Payne V. Tennessee
Small Courts Claim
2. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Peremptory Challenges:
Judge
indeterminate sentencing
Parole
3. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.
support for plea bargaining:
victim impact statements
Voir Dire
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
4. Parole is earned - probation is part of a sentence
Parolve v. probation
Probation
Preliminary Hearing
Determinate sentencing
5. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates
Parolve v. probation
circunstancial evidence
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Judge
6. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Mitigating Circumstances
Procunier vs. Martinez
direct evidence
Lockyer v. Andrade:
7. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
Lockyer v. Andrade:
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
circunstancial evidence
mitigating circumstances
8. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Suspended sentence
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Morissey v. Brewer
Challenges to the array
9. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Restitution
restitution
Probation officer
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
10. 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:
Court Clerk
Recidivism:
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
11. 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
Preliminary Hearing
Cause challenges:
Lockyer v. Andrade:
12. John Augustus
Restitution
baston v. kentucky
Intermediate sentencing
The man known as the first probation officer?
13. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
determinate sentencing
3 level of security associated with prisons
5th Amendment
Santobello Vs. New York
14. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race
baston v. kentucky
Goals of punishment
Stack Vs. Boyle
Morissey v. Brewer
15. A fedral law enacted in response to terrorist attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon on September 11 -2001. The law officially titled the Uniting and Strengthening America by providing Appropriate Tools Required to intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act -
How does an individual become a federal judge
Trial Proceedures
USA Patriot Act
Goals of punishment
16. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Goals of punishment
No lo contendre
Discovery:
victim impact statements
17. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Restitution
Enhancement
5th Amendment
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
18. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
Preliminary Hearing
Probation
support for plea bargaining:
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
19. 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
Grand Jury
circunstancial evidence
Voir Dire
restitution
20. Least used
circunstancial evidence
Runs juvenile hall
Trial Jury
contract attorneys
21. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
Preliminary Hearing
Parole
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Discovery:
22. 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
Recidivism:
circunstancial evidence
support for plea bargaining:
Wolff v. McDaniel
23. Decides guilt or innocence
Judge
Trial Jury
Challenges to the array
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
24. 2005 - illegal to execute minors
public defender
circunstancial evidence
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Roper v. Simmons
25. Officers of the probation office of a court. Probation officer duties include conducting presentence investigations - preparing presentence reports on convicted defendants - and supervising released defendants.
Bailiff
Probation officer
Real evidence
Prosecutor
26. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Judge
Enhancement
7th Amendment
Atkins v. Virginia
27. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Trial Jury
Grand Jury
Balancing test
restitution
28. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Mitigating Circumstances
Pre-sentence report
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
29. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Preliminary Hearing
Pre-sentence report
direct evidence
Trial Proceedures
30. Not qualified - convicted felon - under indictment - can't read or write - bias - served ongrand jury - insane - etc. May arise during voir dire exmination
Preliminary Hearing
Mitigating Circumstances
Cause challenges:
In Re Winship
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
Court apointed council
Peremptory Challenges:
Presentence investigation
Payne V. Tennessee
32. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Parolve v. probation
Wolff v. McDaniel
victim impact statements
Plea Bargain
33. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Cause challenges:
Real evidence
Probation officer
Forfeiture laws
34. Review court
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Domestic terrorism
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
The man known as the first probation officer?
35. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
Terroism threat levels
Enhancement
6th Amendment
Intermediate sentencing
36. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
victim impact statements
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Enhancement
Presentence investigation
37. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
6th Amendment
Goals of punishment
Judge
Enhancement
38. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
indeterminate sentencing
contract attorneys
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
39. 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.
Court apointed council
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
Recidivism:
Challenge for Cause
40. Full time- salaried
Hudson v. Palmer
Enhancement
public defender
Real evidence
41. Underlying conditions--> international encironment --> state--> organizations --> leadership
Determinate sentencing
Court Clerk
7th Amendment
Terrorism- Causes:
42. 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
Cruz v. beto
6th Amendment
Prisoner rights:
43. A written statement of the essential facts making up the offense charged
Trial Proceedures
Challenges to the array
Prisoner rights:
Criminal Complaint
44. Nominated by the President
In Re Gault
Roper v. Simmons
How does an individual become a federal judge
Recidivism:
45. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Domestic terrorism
Presentence investigation
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Morissey v. Brewer
46. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Probation
restitution
Trial Jury
Stack Vs. Boyle
47. Jury trial in civil cases
'Discover'
Grand Jury
7th Amendment
Judge
48. Run by the Federal government. Charged with protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against terrorist attack.
Homeland security
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
Balancing test
Arraignment
49. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
6th Amendment
Roper v. Simmons
No lo contendre
Prisoner rights:
50. 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
Peremptory Challenges:
Determinate sentencing
Procunier vs. Martinez
Gregg V. Georgia
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