Criminal Law
What is the legal term for a crime that is considered serious and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death?
What is a felony?
What is the name of the group of eligible citizens from which potential jurors are drawn?
What is a jury panel?
The political, dualistic nature of the Supreme Court refers to its commitment to two conflicting ideals: fundamental law and what?
What is the will of the people?
Which factor is NOT one of the four primary factors linked to prosecutorial decision-making?
What is political?
Which case first held that unreasonable searches and seizures by state police violate defendants' due process rights?
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
A written formal charge by prosecutors without a grand jury indictment?
What is a criminal information?
What rule is a protective procedure against violations of constitutional rights?
What is a prophylactic rule?
A grand jury is composed of a group of
What are citizens who determine if there is enough evidence for a case to go to trial?
A defendant is convicted of burglary and assaulting its occupant and is sentenced to 3 years for assault and 10 years for burglary. When will the sentences be completed?
What is after 13 years in prison?
SCOTUS has the power to manage how lower federal courts conduct their business. This is called:
What is supervisory power?
Julie owns a gun and is arrested after a law banning firearms is passed. This law might be held unconstitutional under which doctrine?
What is the vagueness doctrine?
In what cases do prosecutors agree to drop charges before formal proceedings begin, on the condition that suspects complete a program?
What is pretrial diversion?
What legal doctrine prohibits people from suing the government without its consent?
What is sovereign immunity?
A prosecutor's decision to dismiss a simple drug possession case because the defendant agrees to enter a rehabilitation program is made because of:
What is pretrial diversion?
What principle was established by Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
What is judicial review?
What type of crime is virtually unaffected by the exclusionary rule, according to empirical research?
What is drug offenses?
What is the process for allowing judges to deny bail to dangerous defendants called?
What is preventive detention?
Which legal doctrine says that the punishment should be severe enough to prevent a convicted offender from repeating the same offense?
What is specific deterrence?
Which is NOT a feature of arbitration?
What is the hearing usually takes no more than 2 days?
Which case established that guilty pleas are constitutional as long as they are made voluntarily and knowingly?
What is North Carolina v. Alford?
What justification stems from the ancient legal saying "There is no right without a remedy"?
What is the prophylactic rule?
What type of immunity do judges have from civil lawsuits for actions they take while performing their official judicial duties?
What is absolute immunity?
Which Latin maxim means "no punishment without law"?
What is nulla poena sine lege?
What is the legal concept that allows prosecutors to drop charges or reduce a sentence in exchange for the defendant's cooperation or guilty plea?
What is plea bargaining?
Which case held that unreasonable searches and seizures by state police violate the Fourth Amendment, even when performed in violation of state law?
What is Wolf v. Colorado?