WELCOME! (ENTRY INTO THE SYSTEM)
When someone is accused and the police have been made aware that you have been convicted of a crime, whether through an arrest or a report.
What is entry into the system?
A defendent can request for this legal proceeding where the case is brought before a higher court for review of the decision of the lower court.
What is appeal?
A judge can sentence someone who has been convicted to one of these alternatives to incarceration. List some examples of this.
What are intermediate Sanctions? What is house arrest, halfwa house, or electronic monitoring?
A case goes BLANK when it is not clear if who commited the crime and the investigation doesn’t have any new evidence.
What is unsolved?
While the state criminal justice system handles crimes committed within their state boundaries, the BLANK criminal justice system handles BLANK property or crimes committed in more than one state
What is the Federal Justice System
This term applies to people who are committed to confinement after adjudication of criminal charges for sentences of one year or less, or persons adjudicated guilty who are awaiting.
What is Jail?
Sometimes the court is given options to accept a plea, this plea can either help, or not help the defendant. If the defendant accepts this the defendant will go straight to sentencing waving his or her right to trial
What is a guilty plea?
This term of release cannot happen if the case is dismissed, and the person convicted does not go to trial.
What is parole?
This is the constitutional right that requires that any suspect or defendant can be brought into a judge or to a court to determine if the person's imprisonment or detention is lawful or unlawful.
What is Habeas Corpus?
When a crime is committed, the police BLANK. The accused are issued a citation for them to appear in court at a specific time.
What is arrest?
This is the decision made by the prosecutor after considering the evidence assembled by the police.
What are charges?
Often when a prosecutor is offering a guilty plea they will offer this to the defendant in hopes that they will plead guilty.
What is a reduction of charge?
This is a court-imposed criminal sentence with specific restrictions and conditions that release a convicted person back into society under supervision.
This happens after a trial and it’s when the defendant is declared not guilty of the crime.
What is acquitted?
The hearing in a juvenile case where the court determines the final appropriate sanction.
What is a disposition
This happens after a crime has been committed and once a police report is filed. This process is done to gather evidence and interview witnesses. Once law enforcement concludes doing this, they might arrest a suspect they think could be responsible.
What is an Investigation?
This process sentences convicted offenders to death for serious crimes. While it is outlawed in some states it does still exist in others.
What is Capital Punishment?
At the first appearance in court, a judge may decide to release the defendant under special circumstances. In order to be released the defendant might have to hand over cash, or something else to assure their return to court.
What is out on bail?
This is when a grand jury refuses to charge someone with a crime because their isn’t enough evidence.
What is refusal to indict?
This term defines when a juvenile is adjudicated to an adult criminal court.
What is waived to criminal court
Once someone has been accused of a crime, they may have to appear at this court proceeding before trial, where the judge may hear evidence and the defendant can be formally indicted or released.
What is a Preliminary Hearing
This is the process by which the accused are given a punishment after a crime has been committed and the accused has been deemed guilty.
Wha tis sentencing?
Once a juvenile is released, they might receive this form of “aid” through the forms of treatment or care and overall supervision.
What is Aftercare?
This happens when a person goes to trial and is found innocent
What are charges dropped?