ADMJ0050 Intro to Admin of Justice

Final Review
Sierra College - Spring 2018

multiple choice

1. What court model was copied by most states in the development of state courts?

2. What is a court's jurisdiction?

3. What plea is entered if the defendant stands mute?

4. Know what is meant by appellate jurisdiction.

5. What type of plea is the most similar to a guilty plea?

6. In the federal court system, what court would hold a felony trial?

7. Know the purpose of bail.

8. Know that RoR stands for released on recognizance. What is involved in RoR?

9. How many regional intermediate appellate districts are there in the federal courts system?

10. Know what an unsecured bond is.

11. Know the significance of US vs. Hazzard.

12. What is the significance of Marbury vs Madison?

It established judicial review

13. How many states have intermediate appellate court systems?

14. Know the significance of McNabb vs. US.

15. Know how many states allow video tape testimony of child witnesses.

16. Know the duties of a bailiff.

17. What us supreme court established the right to legal counsel?

Know the significance of Gideon vs. Wainwright

18. Know the significance of Batson vs. Kentucky

19. In the court system, who is responsible for summoning people for jury duty and subpoenaing
witnesses?

20. Know the order of steps in a criminal trial.

21. Who creates the record of everything that occurs in a trial

A court reporter or court stenographer, also called stenotype operator.

22. What percentage of states use grand juries as part of the pretrial process?
23. Know what is meant by a lay witness.

24. Know Brady VS Maryland.

25. What are the duties and responsibilities of a prosecutor?

26. A study in our book mentioned that prosecutors had a tendency to be lenient towards whom?
However they showed some discrimination against what kinds of defendants? (who are they lenient
towards and who are they harsher towards)

27. Know the approximate percentage of defendants in federal cases who plead guilty (percentage of
federal cases that result in a guilty plea)

28. What sentencing goal stresses vengeance?

29. What is the earliest known rational for punishment?

30. What are the arguments to keep the death penalty? (what is the rational that some people deserve
to die?)

31. Know the significance of Gregg vs. Georgia

32. What state first initiated the three strike law?

The State of Washington was the first to enact a "Three Strikes" law in 1993.

33. Who has final say in the states with indeterminate sentencing?

34. Three strike laws are representative of what type of sentencing?

35. Understand social debt as it pertains to sentencing objectivity.

36. Understand the sentencing goal of incapacitation or know what that is.

37. Know what a shock incarceration is.

38. Know the difference between special and general probation conditions.

39. What is the significance of Samson vs. California?

40. Be familiar with the disadvantages of probation and parole.

41. What intermediate sanction resembles a military boot camp?

42. What supreme court case procedural safeguards a parolee at a revocation hearing?

43. Know what is meant by intermediate sanctions.

44. Typically discretionary releases are granted by whom?

45. Know what the most frequent reasons for revocation are (what are the typical reasons a person is
revocated?)

46. What is the average number of people in prison per 100,000 in America as is set by just deserts?
47. What is the total number of justices on the united states supreme court?

48. Know what is meant by the term trial de novo.

49. What is meant by original jurisdiction?

50. the US district courts are organized into how many regional circuits?

51. What are the powers and duties of a US magistrate judge?

52. The US court of appeals has how many judicial districts? (how many districts are under the court of
appeals?)

53. What is meant by danger laws?

54. What is the purpose of dispute resolution centers?

55.What is a property bond?

56. Know the general characteristics of the supreme court.

57. What is a subpoena?

58. What is real evidence?

59. What supreme court decision upheld the use of closed circuit TV to shield children?

60. What are the duties of a clerk of the court?

61. What method of execution is currently used by most states?

62. What percentage of death row inmates are male?

63. What sentencing goal is associated with the phrase of an eye for an eye?

64. What is the purpose of a revocation hearing in probation or parole?

65. Who makes federal parole decisions? What is the name of the body?

66. House arrest is a reliable alternative to prison under what circumstances?

67. Know the jury challenges. (three typical juror challenges)

68. What is the opposite of aggravating circumstances as it pertains to sentencing?

Mitigating circumstances

69. Know the role of defense attorneys.

70. What sentencing goal attempts to make the victims whole again?

71. Know the advantages of probations and parole.

72. What type of court release requires the defendants guarantee in writing that he will appear?

73. Know what is meant by a private attorney?

74. Know the case Wilkerson vs. Utah?

75. Which state was the first to have shock incarceration programs