Judges, Jury, & Justice
The term length's of Texas Judges.
How long is 6 years?
The two designations a court can have.
What is a Trial court & Appellate court?
The two types of crimes.
What are misdemeanors and felonies?
The ages eligible to attend juvenile prisons.
Who is 17 & under?
The two types of law.
What is Civil law & Criminal Law?
The two ways a judge comes into office.
Why did they appoint or elect?
A court that only deals with specific problems or cases.
What is a Specialty Court.
What deal is offered to the defendant.
What is a plea bargain?
The type of criminal that gets immediate administrative segregation.
What is a gangster or suspected gangster?
A court that keeps transcripts of the court proceedings.
What are Courts of Record?
The requirements for qualifying as jury.
The number of High Courts Texas has.
Why is there 2?
The severity of the penalty/punishment is correlated to the severity of the convicted crime.
What is graded penalty
The reason for high prisoner to CO ratio.
What is the difficulty to hiring correctional Officers?
The penalty/punishment is more severe than the convicted crime.
What is enhanced punishment?
Plays a major role in discipling judges.
What is The State Commission on Judicial Conduct?
The three county-level courts.
What are Constitutional County Courts, Statutory County Courts, and Statutory Probate Courts?
The qualifications to become ineligible for the death penalty.
Who is mentally incompetent or under 18 yrs old?
The two bureaucracies in charge of reintegrating prisoners into society.
What are The Community Justice Assistance Division & Parole Division?
The reason plea bargain is given to convicts.
Because staying in jail could take longer than just taking the plea bargain.
The three types of jury.
What are Civil Juries, Grand Juries, Petit Jury?
An impartial third-party and trained negotiator settle a civil a dispute among litigants.
What is alternative dispute resolution (ADA)?
The crime hardest to convict a person of.
What is a hate crime?
The four-part mission of TDCJ.
Why provide public safety, promote positive behavioral changes, reintegrate offenders into society, and assist crime victims?
The time frame after 1800s that Texas had no state sanctioned executions.
When is 1964-1982?