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The penalty imposed on a convicted person by a court, requiring that he or she pay a specified sume of money to the court.
What is a fine
100
Court established in this case that any unreasonable delay in an initial court appearance would make confessions inadmissable if interrogating officers obtained them during the delay.
What is McNabb v. U.S.
100
This case invalidated a GA statute that permitted a jury to decide issues of guilt or innocence while it weighed sentencing options and allowed for an arbitrary and capricious application of the death penalty.
What is Furman v. Georgia
100
The in-court use of victim or survivor supplied information by sentencing authorities to make an informed sentencing decision.
What is a victim impact statement
100
A sentence of imprisonment that is suspended. Also, the conditional freedom granted by a judicial officer to a convicted offender, as long as the person meets certain conditions of behavior.
What is probation
200
A criminal offense punishable by death.
What is a capital offense
200
This decision gave indigent defendants the right to counsel.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright
200
This case held that the death penalty was not an appropriate sentence for a defendant who had committed rape.
What is Coker v. Georgia
200
The defendant is set free based only on a signed promise to return for further legal proceedings.
What is release on own recognizance
200
A court order taking away a convicted offenders probationary status and usually withdrawing the conditional freedom associated with that status in response to a violation of the conditions of probation.
What is probation revocation
300
The most extreme of all sentencing options.
What is capital punishment
300
This cas confirmed our right to a speedy trial.
What is Klopfer v. North Carolina
300
This case decided that juries, not judges, must decide the facts that lead to a death sentence.
What is Ring v. Arizona
300
Law intended to prevent the pretrial release of criminal defendants judged to represent a danger to others in the community.
What is a danger law
300
My middle name?
What is Anne
400
A writ that directs the person detaining a prisoner to bring him or her before a judicial officer to determine the lawfulness of the imprisonment.
What is a writ of habeas corpus
400
This case held that if you don't get a speedy trial, you get the charges dismissed.
What is Strunk v. U.S.
400
This case made the Federal Sentencing Guidelines advisory.
What is U.S. v. Booker
400
This is filed when a judge's decision so impacts the case in progress that to wait to the end of the trial would significantly violate or damage the case.
What is an interlocutory appeal.
400
Type of car I drive
What is a Mazda CX7
500
A person sentenced under the provisions of a statute declaring that people convicted of a given offense and shown to have previously been convicted of another specified offense shall receive a sever penalty than that for the current offense.
What is a habitual offender
500
This case invalidated any state sentencing scheme that allow jusdges rather than juries to determine any factor that increases a criminal sentence except for prior criminal history.
What is Blakely v. Washington
500
This case held that Kentucky's lethal injection procedure does not violate the 8th Amendment,
What is Baze v. Rees
500
The intentional making of a false statement as part of the testimony by a sworn witness in a judicial proceeding on a matter relevant to the case at hand.
What is perjury
500
number of children I have?
What is 2
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