Court System
This is the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
Name an exception to the warrant requirement.
What is:
Incident to lawful arrest
Hot pursuit
Automobile / Inventory
Plain View
Consent
Stop and Frisk
Exigent Circumstances
A person who has served 3 of the 5 years of their sentence in prison and is currently living in the community under supervision is likely on ________.
What is Parole?
This is an example of community corrections.
What is
probation
parole
any intermediate sanction like house arrest, electronic monitoring, etc
This is how most criminal convictions are obtained in the United States.
What is a plea bargain?
True or False: Members of the jury can talk to their friends or family about the case while a trial is ongoing.
What is False?
This amendment guarantees an accused person the right to counsel.
What is the 6th amendment?
Bob was sentenced to 6 months incarceration for a misdemeanor. This term refers to where Bob will likely serve his sentence.
What is jail?
This individual is living in the community but is subject to certain conditions and restrictions of their activities. They are on __________.
What is community supervision, probation, or parole?
Innocent until proven guilty is also considered _________.
What is legal innocence?
The United States has a _________ court system, which includes both a federal and state court system.
What is dual?
In a criminal trial by jury, this person or group of people determine the verdict.
What is a jury of the defendant's peers?
Saul is serving a prison sentence of 10 years. He is eligible to be released to community supervision at 4 years. He must first go before a panel of individuals who will determine if he will be released. This panel is called ________________.
What is a parole board?
True or False: For an individual's parole to be revoked, they must have committed a new offense.
What is false?
Sue is on trial for Murder in the First Degree. The state statute says that first degree murder carries the following possible punishments:
By imprisonment in the state prison:
(1) For life without the possibility of parole;
(2) For life with the possibility of parole, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 20 years has been served; or
(3) For a definite term of 50 years, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 20 years has been served.
Sue is serving a sentence of ____________.
Any sentence within the guidelines.
Sentence example must be a minimum of 50 years and parole cannot start before 20 years.
In a bench trial, this person or group of persons determines the verdict.
What is the judge?
This is needed before a judge can issue a warrant.
What is an officer swearing an affidavit of probable cause?
This protects against unreasonable searches and seizures by removing the incentive for police to obtain evidence illegally
What is the exclusionary rule?
This is an example of rehabilitative programming.
What is
any therapeutic, vocational, recreational, etc program
A prosecutor chooses to drop charges against an accused person. Give a reason they may do this.
What is
insufficent evidence
evidence of police misconduct
etc
This term refers to a court's legal authority to hear and decide a case.
What is jurisdiction?
This is the burden of proof in a criminal case. Give its definition.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
Definition: There is no other reasonable explanation for the facts presented by the prosecution
This is the first step of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model.
What is performing a risk assessment?
Jennifer was just released from prison on parole after serving three years for burglary. She moves into a residence with other women who are on parole. They have a curfew, have to look for and maintain employment, and go to house meetings once a week. There is a house monitor who helps them find jobs and get counseling. Jennifer is at a ______.
What is a halfway house?
Johnny has the following conditions of probation:
Johnny went to Fremont Street for New Year's Eve and while there his friends told him it would be okay if he had just one drink.
This is the risk if John chooses to have one drink.
What is John can experience sanctions including revocaton?