Types of Crimes
What are the two types of crimes?
What is misdemeanors and felonies?
Where does the name "Miranda" come from?
Who is Ernesto Miranda?
What is a misdemeanor?
What is a minor crime in which someone can be fined a small amount of money?
Which side is the government in a trial?
What is the prosecution?
What is a fine?
What is when a convicted person pays the government a sum of money?
Simple assault is what type of crime?
What is misdemeanor?
Which amendments are the Miranda Rights derived from?
What is the fifth and sixth amendment?
What is a felony?
What is a more serious crime that lands you a longer sentence?
What side is the suspect in a trial?
What is the defense?
What is probation?
What is when a convicted person is released but monitored by a probation officer?
Name 2 examples of a felony?
Robbing, Murder, Arson etc.
What does coercive mean?
What is forced, mentally or physically?
What is a sentence?
What is a punishment given to someone found guilty of committing a crime?
True or False? You can't have a jury in a civil case
False
What is imprisonment?
What is when a convicted person is sent to jail or prison?
Name 2 federal crimes
What is terrorism, robbing a bank, kidnapping etc.
What are the Miranda Rights?
1. The right to remain silent
2. The right to a lawyer
3. If you can't afford a lawyer, the state will pay for one.
What is a penal code?
What is a state's written crime laws?
What type of crime can you plea at the end of the preliminary hearing?
What is a misdemeanor?
What is community service?
What is when a convicted person completes a certain amount of unpaid service work that benefits the local community?
What is the punishment for a misdemeanor and a felony?
What is a fine? What is a year - life in prison?
Summarize the story of how the Miranda Rights started
Miranda was questioned at the police station for hours until he confessed to the crimes, he appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court who ruled 5-4 that his confession was coerced. Miranda was then retried without his confession being admitted as evidence. He ended up getting a sentence that was significantly less than his first trial. Ever since then, before the police question someone, they must be told their Miranda Rights.
What is plea bargaining?
What is process in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for a lesser sentence?
What is it called when the defendant is found not guilty? And when they are found guilty?
What is an acquittal? What is sentencing?
What is work release?
What is when a convicted person works in the community but returns to jail at night, or on weekends?