Unit 1
Athenian lawgiver whose harsh legal code punished both trivial and serious crimes in Athens with death
Who is Draco of Athens
A system that assumes that the best way to get to the truth of a matter is through a competitive process to determine the facts and application of the law accurately.
What is an Adversarial System
The Highest judicial authority in the US is the ________ which is established by Article _____ of the Constitution
What is the Supreme Court and Article Three
This goal of sentencing seeks to provide victims of a crime with compensation and closure.
What is Restoration
How many amendments make up the US Bill of Rights?
What is Ten
Law based on concepts, categories, and rules derived from Roman law
What is Civil Law
A system in which judges or juries have the primary responsibility for gathering and evaluating evidence.
What is an Inquisitorial System
This is the lowest level of the Federal Court system and handles all initial trials
What is the Federal District Court
Only the _______ can issue the death sentence in the US legal system
What is the Jury
In the film Twelve Angry Men the eyewitness reported seeing the crime take place through the _____
What is the Elevated Train
Hammurabi's Code was divided by this form of social bias.
What is Social Class (Rank) and/or Gender
The US Constitution includes a Bill of Rights to protect the rights of citizens from the Government. This document shares several similarities to another document from the United Kingdom.
What is the English Bill of Rights
All federal justices are selected by the _____ and approved for their position by the ______
What is the President and the Senate
This goal of sentencing seeks to instanly punish the guilty party at a level considered equal to the offense.
What is Retribution
Who is Juror #8
Reviewing previous court cases, customs and precedents
What is common law
US law is considered to be _________ law and was heavily influenced by ___________
What is Common Law and England
This court case in 1803 established the idea of Judicial Review giving the Supreme Court the final say in US Law
What is Marbury vs Madison
Besides Restoration and Retribution these are the three foals of sentencing in the US
What is Deterence, Rehabilitation, and Incapcitation
The first written law code was developed in this ancient city-state
What is Babylon
The idea of the Rule of Law- meaning that no person could stand completly above the law initially came from this document.
What is the Magna Carta
Authored the four volume Commentaris on the Laws of England
Who is William Blackstone
South Carolina is a part of the ____ federal circut
What is the Fourth
Almost 90% of cases in the US are settled in this part of the Federal Trail Process
What is Plea Bargining
Justinians Code included extreme biases against all who were not part of this religious group.
What is Catholic Christianity