This is the term for the standard of proof necessary to win a civil case.
What is a "preponderance of the evidence"?
100
This is the term for people acting in concert in criminal purpose.
What is a conspiracy?
100
This crime is an intentional attempt or threat to physically injure another.
What is an assault?
100
Guaranteeing a person the right to legal counsel, this constitutional amendment also establishes the right to a speedy and public trial and the right to an impartial jury trial.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
100
This type of crime is punishable by a find of no more than $1,000 and/or one year of imprisonment, typically in a local institution.
What is a misdemeanor?
200
Written as early as 1900 BC, this is the first known legal document.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
200
This is the term for the type of law that results from court interpretations of statutory law.
What is case law?
200
Part of the original Bill of Rights, this amendment prohibits trying a person for the same crime twice.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
200
Collectively, this set of customs, traditions, judicial decisions, and other materials guide courts in decision making but have not been enacted by the legislatures into statues or embodied in the Constitution.
What is common law?
200
A necessary element of a crime, this Latin phrase translates as "guilty mind."
What is mens rea?
300
This term represents the inducement of an individual to commit a crime that he or she did not previously contemplate.
What is entrapment?
300
This type of crime is punishable by death or imprisonment in a federal or state penitentiary.
What is a felony?
300
This four-word phrase describes the standard of proof necessary to win a criminal case.
What is "beyond a reasonable doubt"?
300
In juvenile proceedings, this is the term for the court's decision or judgment.
What is adjudication?
300
The specialty of "Danno" of "Hawaii Five-O," this is the stage of the criminal justice process that comes after the arrest.
What is the booking?
400
This is sometimes referred to as the "dark figure of crime."
I'm sorry, the correct response is "what is Batman?"
400
This crime is defined as the felonious taking of the money or goods of another, from his or her person or in his or her presence and against the individual's will, through the use or threat of force and violence.
What is a robbery?
400
This term represents the concept that the criminal justice system goes through a screening operation whereby some cases are "weeded out" while others are advanced to the next level of decision making.
What is filtering?
400
These are three of the seven principles of criminal law. [Name any three.]
What are legality, actus reus, causation, harm, concurrence, mens rea, and punishment?
400
These are the two types of courts which together comprise a dual court system.
What are the state and federal courts?
500
This is the term for a set of principles that determine what is right and wrong according to some higher power.
What is natural law?
500
These are the four types of pleas one can enter during an arraignment.
What are not guilty, guilty, nolo contendere, and mute?
500
This category of crime reports includes arson, robbery, and motor vehicle theft.
What are the Part I offenses?
500
Originating from a 1970 Supreme Court case, this is a type of guilty plea in criminal court in which the defendant does not admit the act and asserts innocence.
What is an Alford plea?
500
This stage in the criminal justice process is the one that involves entering a plea.