Jury Selection & Decision-Making
Insanity & Competency
Sentencing & Prison
Death Penalty
Potpourri
100
Pre-trial legal proceeding where judge and/or attorneys formally examine groups of prospective jurors.
What is voire dire?
100
Insanity focuses on the defendant's mental state ________
What is at the time of the offense?
100
Example of a problem solving court
What is mental health, drug, DV, or veteran's court?
100
This amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
What is 8th amendment.
100
The amendment that guarantees the right to trial by a fair and impartial jury.
What is the 6th amendment?
200
Court ruling that says attorneys cannot exclude people based on race.
What is Batson v. Kentucky?
200
The insanity defense requires that the defendant's actions be a result of _______
What is a mental disease or defect?
200
1 in 5 people in the US are incarcerated for ____
What are drug offenses?
200
These types of jurors can be struck for cause during DP voire dire.
Who are people adamantly for or against the DP?
200
When the victim is White, the more ____ a defendant is, the more likely he is to get the death penalty.
What is Black?
300
The best predictors of jury decision-making.
What are case relevant attitudes?
300
Time frame on which competency evaluations are focused?
What is the time of the event/usually present?
300
_____ is a leading cause of prison suicides.
What is solitary confinement?
300
The three types of prisoners prohibited from execution
What are juveniles, mentally ill, & mentally handicapped?
300
Approximately ____% of cases employ the Insanity Defense
What is 1?
400
Details of crime, investigation, effects of crime on victims/families, incriminating evidence against defendant
What is pre-trial publicity?
400
The process of faking or exaggerating mental illness
What is malingering?
400
British reform for solitary confinement.
What is giving prisoners more freedom/control?
400
The types of circumstances that a jury must weigh in rendering a death sentence.
What are aggravating & mitigating?
400
Plea bargains must be _____, _____, & _____
What is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary?
500
Sommers & Norton found that racial bias in jury decision-making was more likely to occur when race was _____
What is salient?
500
The age at which a competency evaluation should be triggered for juveniles.
What is 12?
500
What RNR stands for when discussing prison reform
What is Risk-Needs-Responsivity?
500
Many organizations estimate that at least 1 in ___ people on death row are innocent.
What is 10?
500
Due date and time of your Op-Ed
What is Sunday April 30th at 8am?
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