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DSST Criminal Justice
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1. Requires interpretation of a judge or jury to reach conclusion based on what evidence indicates

2. Crime - Investigation - arrest - file criminal complaint - first arraignment - preliminary hearing - second arraignment - trial - sentencing - appeal

3. The in court use of victim or survivor supplied information supplied by sentencing authorities seeking to make an informed sentencing decision.

4. A model of criminal punishment in which an offender is given a fixed term of imprisonment that they may be reduced by good time or gain taim. all offendors convicted of the same crime will reciee the same punishment

5. A fedral law enacted in response to terrorist attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon on September 11 -2001. The law officially titled the Uniting and Strengthening America by providing Appropriate Tools Required to intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act -

6. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.

7. Full time- salaried

8. The lawyer representing the defendant

9. I do not wish to contend- has the same effect as a guilty plea-becomes a plea bargain

10. 2003 - illegal to execute mentally retarded

11. Mitigating - Lessens criminal responsibility and lightens sentence. Aggravating - factors that makes harsher sentence

12. Prisoners challenged the constitutionality of state regulations covering censorship of prisoner mail on the grounds that they violated the prisoners free-speech rights. REstrictions on speech must be justified as the necessity for security and the ru

13. Circumstances - facts - or situations that result in a harsher sentence

14. Jury trial in civil cases

15. Consecutive - one after the other and Concurrent is at same time

16. U.S Districts Courts - U.S. Court of Appeal - U.S. Supreme Court

17. Process of negotiating an agreement w/ defendant - protectors - and the court

18. Any circumstances accompanying the commission of a crime that may justify a lighter sentence.

19. Made victim impact statements legal

20. Review court

21. Signifies the belief that the potential jurors are not representative of the community

22. A common law principle that allows the state to assume a parental role and to take custody of a child when he or she becomes delinquent - is abandoned or is need of care taht the natural parents are unable or unwilling to provide

23. Most widely used goal is to individualize punishment - inmates eligible for parole after serving minimum

24. Prohibits peremptory challenges based on race

25. Plea bargaining is an essential component of the new admistration of justice and must be highly encouraged

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