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DSST Criminal Justice
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
7th Amendment
Pre-sentence report
Arraignment
6th Amendment
2. A legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
Against Plea bargaining:
Arraignment
Discovery:
aggravating circumstances
3. Pretrial phase of a law suit where each party can obtain any evidence from the opposing side
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4. 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
victim impact statements
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
5. Opening statements --> Prosecution always starts- statement --> Defense statement --> Prosecutors evidence (burden of proof lies on prosecution) --> defense evidence --> rebuttal (prosecution)
Trial Proceedures
restitution
6th Amendment
Goals of punishment
6. Right to a speedy trial with unbiased jury - right to counsel
Parens patriae
Wolff v. McDaniel
6th Amendment
indeterminate sentencing
7. Amnesty - Bail - good behavior
Discovery:
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
List three ways a person can be released from jail
Suspended sentence
8. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Prosecutor
Judge
Restitution
restitution
9. 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.
Court Clerk
Forfeiture laws
Intermediate sentencing
Court Jurisdiction
10. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain
Atkins v. Virginia
Bailiff
support for plea bargaining:
No lo contendre
11. Court holds that bail must be reasonable but set at level to insure defendant's appearance at trial
Stack Vs. Boyle
determinate sentencing
Defense Attorney
Parolve v. probation
12. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum
Aggravated Circumstances
Intermediate sentencing
3 level of security associated with prisons
Cruz v. beto
13. Charges - Rights - Attorney - Plea Bail/No Bail
5th Amendment
'Discover'
victim impact statements
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
14. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Lockyer v. Andrade:
Bailiff
Goals of punishment
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
15. Pretrial proceedings at which the prosecutor must prove that a crime was committed and establish the probable guilt of the defendant.
Preliminary Hearing
Court Clerk
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Prosecutor
16. Holding Cells-Convenience-Many law enforcement agencies - County Jail-Holds all level of offenders-sheriffs department Juvenile Hall-criminals under 18-probation department
Rules of evidence
Different type of detention facilities and their function and who operates them
Procunier vs. Martinez
Presentence investigation
17. Geographic area of the court
Procunier vs. Martinez
Mitigating Circumstances
Venue
baston v. kentucky
18. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded
Atkins v. Virginia
3 level of security associated with prisons
public defender
Lockyer v. Andrade:
19. Jury trial in civil cases
Restitution
7th Amendment
How does an individual become a federal judge
Trial Jury
20. 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.
Runs juvenile hall
Court Clerk
Balancing test
In Re Gault
21. 2008 - court held that the death penalty is not appropriate for a crime that does not include the taking of a life
Court Jurisdiction
Cruz v. beto
Homeland security
Kentucky vs. Louisiana
22. 1974 - sanctions cannot be levied against inmates without appropriate due process
Explain the difference between probation and parole
Wolff v. McDaniel
Grand Jury
Presentence investigation
23. A model of criminal punishment that encourages the rehabilitiation through the use of general and relatively unspecific sentences
Prisoner rights:
indeterminate sentencing
contract attorneys
7th Amendment
24. Level 1 - 2 - and 3
Pre-sentence report
3 level of security associated with prisons
Challenge for Cause
restitution
25. Probation
Runs juvenile hall
Peremptory Challenges:
Plea Bargain
Challenges to the array
26. A court that hears a case the first time it is tried in court. A trial court is a court of original jurisdiction.
Mitigating Circumstances
Court Jurisdiction
Bailiff
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
27. In pre-trial in which each party can obtain evidence from opposing party
Discovery:
aggravating circumstances
Restitution
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
28. (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them
Small Courts Claim
Aggravated Circumstances
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Probation
29. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that make it more grave than average instance of that crime
3 level of security associated with prisons
Cruz v. beto
Hudson v. Palmer
aggravating circumstances
30. A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
Discovery:
Judge
aggravating circumstances
6th Amendment
31. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
determinate sentencing
Parens patriae
Hudson v. Palmer
32. 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
The difference between consecutive and concurrent sentencing?
Domestic terrorism
Trial Jury
Bailiff
33. 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
No lo contendre
Against Plea bargaining:
Cause challenges:
Terroism threat levels
34. It is the receiving point for CA department of corrections
The man known as the first probation officer?
In Re Gault
Challenges to the array
Function of the Reception Centers within the CA department of Corrections?
35. 1963 - extended the right to appointed counsel for indigents in all felony cases
mitigating circumstances
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
Indictment
Terroism threat levels
36. Presumption of innocence- cannot be convicted unless the evidence is proved without a reasonable doubt
Rules of evidence
direct evidence
circunstancial evidence
Goals of punishment
37. Evidence that if believed proves a fact- eyewitnesses - videtapes - ec.
direct evidence
Mitigating Circumstances
Procunier vs. Martinez
5 functions which take place at an arraignment
38. Grand Jury
6th Amendment
5th Amendment
Court Jurisdiction
Probation officer
39. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court
Plea Bargain
'Discover'
Discovery:
aggravating circumstances
40. Trial Court - superior court - pellet superior court - supreme court
3 level of security associated with prisons
4 types of courts found in the CA court system
support for plea bargaining:
Gideon Vs. Wainwright:
41. Physical material or traces of physical activity
Real evidence
circunstancial evidence
aggravating circumstances
Atkins v. Virginia
42. 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
Stack Vs. Boyle
determinate sentencing
Balancing test
Morissey v. Brewer
43. Evidence that consists of physical material or traces of physical activity
Real evidence
Cruz v. beto
USA Patriot Act
restitution
44. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on gender
Arraignment
J.E.B. vs. Alabama
Explain the difference between probation and parole
restitution
45. 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
Parole
Bailiff
Procunier vs. Martinez
Prosecutor
46. State legislature can establish almost any sentence as a punishment for a crime
Determinate sentencing
6th Amendment
Probation officer
Lockyer v. Andrade:
47. 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
Peremptory Challenges:
Gregg V. Georgia
support for plea bargaining:
Place in correct order: Trial - Investigation - Crime - File criminal complaint - appeal - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - sentencing - arrest
48. (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 Jurisdiction
Domestic terrorism
Parole
victim impact statements
49. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court
Cruz v. beto
baston v. kentucky
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system
Real evidence
50. Group of jurors who were selected to tell if there's enough evidence or not
Grand Jury
Venue
Recidivism:
Names of the federal courts that make up the three tiers of the federal court system