Pre-trial Activities
Defendant brought before a judge for the first time, Told charges against you, given the opportunities of bail.
What is first appearance?
Trial Initation, Jury selection, opening statements, presentation of evidence, closing arguments, judge's charge to the jury, and verdict
What is the Stages of the Criminal Trial
The release of a criminal before trial
What is Pretrial release
Proves a fact without requiring a judge or jury to draw inferences
The process whereby, according to law and precedent, members of a trial jury are chosen.
What is jury selection?
release of the accused from custody or part of the time before or during prosecution of your promise to appear in court.
What is pretrial release?
Designed to regulate the time in which a trial is to begin, to ensure that criminal prosecutions are not delayed
Limits the right to bail certain offenders.
What is Danger laws?
Requires judge or jury to make inferences to draw conclusions
What is circumstantial?
A developing field that seeks to take advantage of peremptory challenges.
What is scientific jury selection?
Release of defendant on their written promise to appear in court. no cash or property bond.
what is the release on recognizance (ROR)?
where the court acts as a referee between the prosecution and the defense. contest between two parties. the parties are the state and the accused.
what is the adversarial system
Votes on the indictment.
What is the Grand Jury?
May be either direct or circumstantial
What is real evidence?
Members who are not permitted to have contact with the public housed in motels or hotels until the trial ends.
What is sequestered juries?
imposes requirements for defendant, for example, participating in a drug program or getting a job.
what is conditional release?
results in the exclusion of a potential juror without the need for any reason or explanation.
what is the peremptory challenge
Process of negotiating an agreement among the defendants
What is Plea Bargaining?
An item of evidence against or prejudicial qualities
What is probative qualities?
A civil case with significance for the criminal justice, the court held that peremptory challenges in civil suits were not acceptable if based on race.
What is Leesville concrete co. inc?
assigns custody of defendant to an agency or individual, ensuring his or her appearance in court.
what is third party custody?
a procedure in which a social scientists act as consultants and assist a litigator in the selection of a jury.
what is scientific jury selection
States that don't use Grand Jury use...
What is Preliminary hearing?
Generally the chef means by which evidence is introduce at trial
What is testimony?
Guarantees the right to an impartial jury.
What is the sixth amendment?