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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. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Real evidence
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
Payne V. Tennessee
Indictment
2. Rules: no attorneys - maximum loss money 7 -500
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Small Courts Claim
restitution
Explain the difference between probation and parole
3. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Intermediate sentencing
Balancing test
3 level of security associated with prisons
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
4. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
How does an individual become a federal judge
Challenges to the array
Restitution
Small Courts Claim
5. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
Terrorism- Causes:
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Aggravated Circumstances
Arraignment
6. 1 - Costs tax players less - 2 - Restitution can be made - 3 - Community work
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
Prosecutor
Balancing test
Parens patriae
7. A prisoner has no reasoable expectations of privacy in his prison cell and no protections against what would otherwise be unreasonable searches 4th amendment
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Preliminary Hearing
Hudson v. Palmer
aggravating circumstances
8. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
9. 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
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Domestic terrorism
Wolff v. McDaniel
Probation officer
10. Procedural safeguards are necessary in revocation hearing involving parolees
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Rules of evidence
Morissey v. Brewer
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
11. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
Parole
Probation
Bailiff
12. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Indictment
Roper v. Simmons
Small Courts Claim
13. 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
Judge
Pre-sentence report
Arraignment
14. Fee based on state rate
Mitigating Circumstances
What is another term used to identify supreme courts
mitigating circumstances
Court apointed council
15. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence
Cause challenges:
Trial Proceedures
determinate sentencing
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
16. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Homeland security
Recidivism:
Parolve v. probation
17. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence
Aggravated Circumstances
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
public defender
Gregg V. Georgia
18. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
In Re Winship
Bailiff
7th Amendment
Probation
19. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
Santobello Vs. New York
Roper v. Simmons
No lo contendre
determinate sentencing
20. Probation is a sentencing usually given instead of jail but not always - parole is a conditional release from prison
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Forfeiture laws
Terrorism- Causes:
victim impact statements
21. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Rules of evidence
Balancing test
Judge
22. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
support for plea bargaining:
Prosecutor
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Atkins v. Virginia
23. 1976 - Bifurcated trials - the guilt and innocent phase is separate from the punishment
No lo contendre
Gregg V. Georgia
Wolff v. McDaniel
Intermediate sentencing
24. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
Parolve v. probation
aggravating circumstances
Court Clerk
victim impact statements
25. Geographic area of the court
Parole
Probation officer
Venue
Morissey v. Brewer
26. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
direct evidence
In Re Gault
Gregg V. Georgia
Preliminary Hearing
27. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the defendant
Bailiff
Ddvantages of probation and parole?
mitigating circumstances
Homeland security
28. Grand Jury
Real evidence
Enhancement
5th Amendment
Explain the difference between probation and parole
29. John Augustus
The man known as the first probation officer?
Roper v. Simmons
Cruz v. beto
Small Courts Claim
30. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Roper v. Simmons
Real evidence
Peremptory Challenges:
baston v. kentucky
31. 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
Mitigating Circumstances
Balancing test
restitution
support for plea bargaining:
32. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Forfeiture laws
5th Amendment
Wolff v. McDaniel
mitigating circumstances
33. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Judge
aggravating circumstances
Plea Bargain
Domestic terrorism
34. Made victim impact statements legal
Rules of evidence
Pre-sentence report
Payne V. Tennessee
Presentence investigation
35. 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
Venue
Wolff v. McDaniel
In Re Winship
Explain the difference between probation and parole
36. (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
The man known as the first probation officer?
Rules of evidence
Roper v. Simmons
37. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
Challenges to the array
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
Parolve v. probation
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.
Arraignment
restitution
Habeus corpus
aggravating circumstances
39. Retribution - Restoration - deterrence - incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Real evidence
Goals of punishment
Plea Bargain
Enhancement
40. Jury trial in civil cases
In Re Gault
Prisoner rights:
7th Amendment
The difference between mitigating and aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing
41. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
victim impact statements
Lockyer v. Andrade:
public defender
Challenges to the array
42. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.
Plea Bargain
Mitigating Circumstances
Procunier vs. Martinez
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
43. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Grand Jury
Indictment
Goals of punishment
44. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Parens patriae
In Re Winship
Criminal Complaint
Arraignment
45. Green- low Blue-guarded yellow-elevated orange- high red- severe
aggravating circumstances
support for plea bargaining:
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Terroism threat levels
46. 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
victim impact statements
Peremptory Challenges:
Parens patriae
Trial Jury
47. 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
Court Clerk
Suspended sentence
Court apointed council
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
48. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community
Challenges to the array
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Peremptory Challenges:
Parolve v. probation
49. Probation
Runs juvenile hall
Restitution
No lo contendre
Arraignment
50. 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.
Court Clerk
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
Goals of punishment
Peremptory Challenges: