Chapter 10
The number of jurors in a jury
What is 12?
The tax that is Texas’ primary state tax revenue
What is sales tax?
The rule dealing with college that rural Republicans and Democrats came together for
What is the 10% rule?
Prison Incarceration Rates are measured
What is Per Capita?
(Number or prisoners per 100,000 residents)
Last day of SI Sessions, time, and location
What is April 30 at 4pm in CS 114?
District level judges and justices are selected in this way
What are Partisan Elections?
The policy that deals with raising interest rates to lower inflation
What is Monetary Policy?
The issue that rural Republicans and Democrats came together for
(double points for term explanation)
What are vouchers for private schools?
Death Penalty is only executed for
What is capital felons?
Carlos Valdez’s job on the Selena case
What is prosecutor?
Jurisdiction that allows multiple courts to hear the same case
What is Concurrent Jurisdiction?
The policy that boosts or slows the economy down
(double points for lecture example)
What is Fiscal Policy?
The agency that regulates education in public schools
What is the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and State Board?
Texas is being sued for _____ in prisions
What is treatment of prisoners?
Ex: A/C in the summer
The city and state based in the documentary
What is Flint, Michigan?
The procedure that the criminal justice system follows
What is prosecution then defense then jury?
When each university sets their tuition rates instead of the state
What is tuition deregulation?
Medicare v. Medicaid
(double points for test name and risk explanation)
What is based on income? (Medicaid)
What is based on age (65+)? (Medicare)
What is MEANS test?
Reasons it may be hard for people to reintegrate back into society
What are education, job opportunities, etc.
The disease found in the Flint, Michigan water
What is Legionella bacteria?
Jurisdiction that the district level courts hold
Regressive Tax v. Progressive Tax
(double points for examples)
What is income increases, taxes decreases? (regressive)
What is income increases, taxes increases? (progressive)
Ex. Texas sales tax
The bill that gave state police more authority
(double points for explanation)
What is Senate Bill 4?
What is to detain people based on the suspicion that they were undocumented and the state could deport them?
The problem of a “for profit” private prison system
What is more people going into the system, more money is being made?
Final Exam date and time
What is Thursday, May 2 at 11a-1:30p?