In the Beginning
This means that two people committing similar crimes may receive different treatment.
What is discretion.
Name one specialized court?
What is Drug Courts, Mental Health Courts, Community Courts, Domestic Violence Courts, Gun Courts
What is a resident of the state? Licensed to practice law? Member of bar association? 25 years old and less than 70 years old.
This court is the last court of resort or the highest court in all the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
This person represents the state in criminal proceedings.
Who is the prosecutor?
More murderers receive this punishment rather than the death penalty.
What is probation.
Kentucky Court of limited jurisdiction is also called?
What is District Court?
Primary duty is to oversee trials.
What is the judge.
Attorneys are allowed this long to present their case to the Supreme Court?
What is 30 minutes?
The right to counsel is guaranteed by which amendment.
What is the 6th amendment?
The court process includes the entire process from ___________ to sentencing.
What is initial contact.
This court hears cases that can involve misdemeanors, arraingments, and felony probably cause hearing in KY.
What is District Court?
This is a method of picking judges through nonpartisan elections as a way to ensure that judges adhere to high standards of judicial performance.
What is the Missouri Plan.
President of the United States
This person represents the accused in criminal proceedings.
Who is the defense?
One reason a prosecutor would drop charges against a suspect.
What is lack of evidence? no cooperation with victim/witness? resources? political pressure
This type of case can go directly to the KY Supreme Court?
What is death penalty, life in prison, 20+ years?
This is the type of trial where the judge decides innocence or guilt.
What is a bench trial?
Justices on the Supreme Court serve this many years?
What are a lifetime?
This case applied the right to counsel to state defendants
What is Gideon v. Wainwright.
This is far more common than a formal criminal trial.
What are probation or what are diversion?
What are Texas and Oklahoma?
Qualifications to become a federal judge include?
What are almost none.
When the Supreme Court rules on a case its rule becomes this that must be followed by all lower courts.
What is a landmark decision?
What are legal, victim, extralegal, resources