Chapter 4
What is the term of office for the Texas Governeor? Are there term limits? Who is the current governor?
- What is... 4 years (NO TERM LIMITS)
- Who is... Greg Abbot...
What are law enforcemnt agencies in Texas and what are their areas of responsibility?
- What are Law enforcement officers in Texas are called “peace officers.” Their duties include investigating reported crimes, executing warrants for arrest, and protecting the public in emergency situations.
What are the main differeces between civil law and criminal law?
- What is Civil law deals with the disputes between individuals, organizations, or between the two, in which compensation is awarded to the victim. Criminal law is the body of law that deals with crime and the legal punishment of criminal offenses.
Adjudication hearing
- What are a trial, where people come to court, take an oath to tell the truth and testify about the charge.
Trail de novo
- What are a new trial on an entire case, where both questions of fact and issues of law are determined as if there had been no trial in the first instance.
What are the formal and informal requirments to serve as Texas Governor?
What is the Governors salary?
Name other benefits.
- What is... At least thirty (30) years old, a citizen of the United States, and have been a resident of the state for five years immediately prior to the election.
- What is... $153,750
- What is... Free response
List the three legal duties of the state when dealing with juvenile legal cases.
- What are skill development
- What are habilitation,
- What are rehabilitation
Describe Texas legal aid system for the poor.
- What is Texas Legal Services Center empowers underserved Texans through legal education, advocacy, and representation.
Graded penalties
- What are a crime that is divided into various degrees of severity with corresponding levels of punishment.
Tort and tort reform
- What is Tort reform is legislation that limits a plaintiff's ability to recover compensation in a personal injury lawsuit
Describe in detail the powers of the govenor.
Describe the demographic charecteristics fo Texas's prisoon population
- What are blacks
- What are Petit jury listens to evidence offered during a trial and returns a verdict.
- What are A Grand jury does not appear in trial, but listens to evidence presented by an attorney for the government and determines from the evidence if sufficient probable cause exists for bringing formal criminal charges against an individual.
Texas Penal Code
- What are a body of law relating to crime and punishment.
Marital law
- What is the displacement of civilian authorities by the military
Explain checks and balnaces
- What is a system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power.
When someone is found acquitted (found not guilty), are they also completely innocent of the crime they were charged with? Why or why not.
- What are an acquittal does not mean that the defendant is innocent of the crime—only that the prosecutor failed to prove that the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Accordingly, the charge may remain on the defendant's criminal record even without a conviction.
Upon what basis are criminal trial verdicts appealed?
- What are arguments that there were errors in the trial s procedure or errors in the judge's interpretation of the law.
State Bar of Texas
- What are support the administration of the legal system, assure all citizens equal access to justice, foster high standards of ethical conduct for lawyers
Full pardon
- What is restores certain citizenship rights forfeited upon criminal conviction
What makes up the "plural excutive" in Texas?
- What is the power of the Governor is limited and distributed amongst other government officials.
What are the four-part mission of the Texas Deparntment of Criminal Justice?
- What are provide public safety, promote positive change in offender behavior, reintegrate offenders into society, and assist victims of crime
Name the nine different kinds of court in Texas
- What are district courts, county courts, county courts of law, probate courts, justice courts, and municipal courts
Stare Decisis
- What is the legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent.
Plural excutive
- Who are a group of officers or major officials (as a board of directors) or a committee that functions in making current decisions or in giving routine orders usually the responsibility of an individual executive officer or official.