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| Defense attorney's responsibility is to what? |
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| Protect constitutional rights and defend the accused |
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| Is the most common form of defense representation |
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| What about public defenders is true? |
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| Public defender's usually have large case loads |
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| The formal court apperance of an accused person where chargers are presented |
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| Defendant's are presumed innocent until.....? |
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| To make sure offender's shouw up for court |
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| An agreement between the defendant and prosecutor in a criminal case where the defendant please guilty in return for a reduced sentence. MOST CASES END WITH A PLEA BARGAIN AND AVOID THE TRIAL. |
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| Trials conducted by a judge who acts as fact finder (instead of a jury like in a jury trial) and determines issues of law. No jury participates. |
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| The people that supposed to determine questions of fact |
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| How many people are usually on the jury |
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| Process of screening out potential jurors |
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| Physical evidence such as a weapon, records, fingerprints, and stolen property, involved to perpatuate the crime. |
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| Evidence that is not based on witness testimony but that demontstrates information relevant to the crime, such as maps, x-rays, and photographs; includes real evidence. |
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| Oral evidence provided by the a legally competent witness. |
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| Evidence provided by a witness from which a jury must infer a fact. |
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| Punishment of criminals that is intended to be an example to the general public and to discourage the commission of offenses. |
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| Punishment inflicted on criminals to discourage them from committing future crimes. |
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| Philosophy of punishment that targetes career criminals because they are locked up much longer than other offenders. |
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| A reduction of an inmate's sentence for good behavior or participation in vocational, educational or treatment programs. |
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| Referes to policies and legislation that aim to abolish or curb parole, so that convicts serve that period that they have been sentence for |
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| A varierty of punishments that are more restrictive than traditional probation but less severe and less costly than incarceration |
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| The most frequently applied intermediate sanction. It is a sentence an offender is allowed to serve under supervision in the community. |
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| A report, prepared by a probation officer, that presentes a convicted offender's background and is used by the judge in selecting an appropriate sentence. |
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| Institution designed to punish criminals by isolating them from society and one another so they can reflect on their past mideeds, repent, and reform. Offers penitence |
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| A model of corrections based on the assumption that criminal behavior is caused by biological or psychological conditions that require treatment. |
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| A model of corrections that emphasizes the need to restore a convicted offender to a constructive place in society through some form of vocational or educatinal training or therapy. |
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| The general goal of community corrections approach. Emphasizes the need to maintain the offender's ties to to family and community as a method of reform. |
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| The branch of the federal government that manages prisons |
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| Manner in which prisons are organized and inamates located to housing |
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| An institution authorized to hold pre-trial detainees and sentenced misdeameanants for periond longer than 48 hours but no more than 1 year. |
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| Institution for incarceration of people convicted of serious crimes, usually felonies. 1 year of imprisonment or more. |
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| Due process while in jail include |
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| Hearing on disciplinary issues |
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| Why is probation utilized a mode of punishment? |
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| To avoid the price of incarceration |
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| The probationer's failure to abide by the rules and conditions of probation, resulting in revocations of probation. |
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| Repayment in the form or money or service. |
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| Government seizure of property and other assests derived from or used in criminal behavior. |
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| Intensive supervision probation (ISP) |
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| Probation granted under conditions of strict reporting to a probation officer with a limited case load |
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| The state as parent; the state as the guardian or protector of all citizens (usually juveniles) that a cannot protect themselves |
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| Due process for juveniles |
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| Is limited and they only have some due process rights guranteed to adults |
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| Any act committed by a juvenile that is considered unacceptable for a child, such as truancy, running away from home, but that would not be a crime if committed by an adult. |
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| Waiver, transfer, certification |
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| Procedure by a juvenile court waives its jurisdiction and transfers a juvenile case to an adult criminal court |
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| A child that has committed an act that if committed by an adult would be criminal |
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