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Exam 1-Courts

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Most influential actor in the court room?   Prosecutor  
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Trial with a judge without a jury?   Bench Trial  
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Operation of two systems of court that are rseperate?   Dual Court System  
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Coersive power practices is a violation of this due process?   Fundamental Fairness  
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Edwin Southerten made   differential association and also term white collar crime  
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Packer   Creater of Crime Control  
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Characteristics of Crime Control Model   Concern for protecting society  
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Overalll conviction rate for felonies?   90%  
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How many supreme court cases do they take?   85  
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Which of the follwing does not take place in arrainment?   Discussion of probable cause  
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Federal government and most states have made 2 levels of courts   Intermediate and Supreme  
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These motions contends that police have conducted an illegal search and seizure or got an illegal confession   Motion to Suppress  
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Key characteristics of common law   Based on justice  
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Burden of proof required in a civil case?   Preponderance of the evidence  
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Which of the following is not an element of a crime?   Guilty Conscious  
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Means Rea means   Guilty Mind  
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Amendment for search and seizure   4th amendment  
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2 Amendment discuss due process?   5th and 14th  
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Unlike other state laws exception is   Lousiana/ Napolean  
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Primany justification for providing constitutional safeguards in the criminal justice process to ensure what?   Innocent are not harassed or imprisoned  
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Highest level of burden of proof?   Beyond a reasonable doubt  
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This amendment guarantees right to council   6th Amendment  
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Party who initiates a civil suit is called   Plaintiff  
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Infancy and Insanity differences   Lack of mens rea/excuses  
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2 adversary actors in the Criminal Justice System?   Prosecutor and Defense Attorneys  
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As per Miranda Rights (Miranda V. Arizona) 384 U.S. 486 (1966)   Volume is 384  
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Previous cases in a court system?   Precident  
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Which of the following does not meet the requirement of actus reaus   Contemplation  
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Prisoners seek rights under which amendment?   8th Amendment- Cruel and Unusual  
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Level of proof for an officer to conduct a brief stop and frisk?   Reasonable suspicion  
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US has a dual court system?   State and Federal  
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Whic his true of appellate courts?   Decisions are made by a group of judges not by themselves  
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What federal court has original jurisdiction between states?   Supreme Court  
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Rule of four is?   Permits four of the nine justices to grant a writ of certiorari  
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Which of the follwing give US Supreme Courts to have a law invalid in the constitutions?   Judicial Review/ statuatory law invalidated in Marbury V. Madison  
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Prisoners are alllowed to file federal lawsuits except   Clemency  
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20% of federal prosectuions are for   Drugs  
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Responsabilities of US Sentencing Commission includes which of the following?   Recommending to congress appropriate modifications of substative criminal law and sentencing procedures  
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This type of prisoner petition seek court order to do something for the plaintiff   Write of madamus  
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This doctrine allows state and federal prosecution for the same crime without activating double jeoperdy?   Dual Soveregnty  
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JP courts and municipal courts are similar in the folowing ways   Both are lower courts  
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With of the following is consisten with court modification   All of the above  
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What are three strikes law?   3 crimes that are commited  
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Ewing V California us supreme court upheld valifornias 3 strikes laws for?   All of the above  
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Which of tWhich of the following is true on drug courts?   Courts assume that drug treatment will work  
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Which of the folliowing allows with the imposition on tougher laws?   All of the above  
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What courts called in most rural areas??   Justice of the Peace Courts  
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What courts were created for a similar growth   intermediate courts of appeals  
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