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Which of the following is the most accurate description of the Solicitor General's role within the Department of Justice?
Which of the following is the most accurate description of the Solicitor General's role within the Department of Justice?
- Is the 3rd highest-ranking official of the Justice Department (correct)
- Supervises all federal litigation.
- Advises the President on judicial appointments.
- Serves as the primary liaison between the Justice Department and Congress.
What is a significant challenge that lawyers face when representing criminal defendants, contributing to why many avoid it?
What is a significant challenge that lawyers face when representing criminal defendants, contributing to why many avoid it?
- It involves extensive travel and unpredictable hours.
- The work is emotionally taxing and demanding.
- It produces few chances of victory (correct)
- Criminal cases are typically less lucrative.
Which of the following actions falls outside the statutory responsibilities typically assigned to a U.S. Attorney?
Which of the following actions falls outside the statutory responsibilities typically assigned to a U.S. Attorney?
- Representing the government in civil cases.
- Enforcing federal laws and pursuing justice on behalf of the United States.
- Prosecuting federal crimes within their district.
- Receiving authorization from the Solicitor General to review an appeal of a ruling. (correct)
What was the specific scope of the Gideon v. Wainwright ruling regarding legal representation?
What was the specific scope of the Gideon v. Wainwright ruling regarding legal representation?
Which of the following describes a key characteristic of trial courts with limited jurisdiction?
Which of the following describes a key characteristic of trial courts with limited jurisdiction?
What critique is commonly leveled against the 'law on the books' approach concerning court delays?
What critique is commonly leveled against the 'law on the books' approach concerning court delays?
In which scenario does an indigent defendant not have the right to court-appointed counsel, according to the Supreme Court in Ross v. Moffitt?
In which scenario does an indigent defendant not have the right to court-appointed counsel, according to the Supreme Court in Ross v. Moffitt?
Why do critics express concerns about the assigned counsel system?
Why do critics express concerns about the assigned counsel system?
Which of the following is NOT a principle of a unified court system?
Which of the following is NOT a principle of a unified court system?
In the courtroom work group, which of the following roles is considered the most important?
In the courtroom work group, which of the following roles is considered the most important?
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Who is the Solicitor General?
Who is the Solicitor General?
The 3rd highest-ranking official of the Justice Department.
Why avoid criminal defense?
Why avoid criminal defense?
It produces few chances of victory for the lawyers
Who does the bailiff belong to?
Who does the bailiff belong to?
Law enforcement
Gideon v. Wainwright ruling?
Gideon v. Wainwright ruling?
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How are trial courts funded?
How are trial courts funded?
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Law on the books and delays?
Law on the books and delays?
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Solicitor general requests?
Solicitor general requests?
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Robert Jackson Remarked?
Robert Jackson Remarked?
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Most popular method of helping indigents?
Most popular method of helping indigents?
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Largest law firm?
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Study Notes
- The Solicitor General is the 3rd highest-ranking official of the Justice Department.
- There are 322 judges in the County Courts in Florida
- Lawyers avoid representing criminal defendants as it produces few chances of victory
- The bailiff belongs to law enforcement within the Courthouse Actors.
- A U.S. attorney's statutory responsibility does not include receiving authorization from the solicitor general to review an appeal to a ruling.
- The Gideon v. Wainwright ruling was limited to state felony prosecutions.
- Most trial courts of limited jurisdiction are funded and operated locally.
- An advantage of the public defender system is that it provides more experienced competent counsel.
- Researchers agree that the law on the books approaches to court delays issuing more and more rules and regulations are ineffective in speeding up case dispositions.
- In discretionary appeals and appeals to the Supreme Court, indigent defendants have no rights to court-appointed counsel according to Ross v. Moffitt.
- The dual court system references to America's civil and criminal courts system
- Article Ill of the United States Constitution provides an outline for the federal judiciary
- The U.S. Court of Appeals system has a total of 11 Circuits
- The Due Process Model of the Criminal Justice System emphasizes the protection of society.
- Terrorists classified as military non-combatants are currently tried in military tribunals.
- Corpus Delicti are the parts that make of a crime
- Most state court judges are appointed by the state Supreme Court.
- Full-time U.S. Magistrate Judges are appointed to four-year terms.
- An example of Defenses of Justification is self-defense.
- The term clerk of the court may be referred to as court administrator
- Contract systems are most often found in counties with populations of less than 50,000.
- County courts in Florida consist of 67 counties.
- U.S. attorneys fall under the supervision of the attorney general.
- Writing opinions is not a duty of the court clerk.
- The National Center for State Court's findings include: case delay causes deterioration of cases or pressures prosecutors to offer lenient plea bargains.
- Criminal courts do not administer justice due to assembly-line justice.
- There are 7 judges that sit in the Florida Supreme Court.
- Under the inquisitorial system of justice: the prosecutor does not need to prove the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
- The goal of the Crime Control Model of the Criminal Justice System is not reducing the prison population.
- The burden of proof required for a party to prevail in a civil law suit is the preponderance of the evidence.
- The three main components of the American Criminal Justice System are: prosecutors, judges and defense attorneys.
- The protections of the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments during a criminal proceeding deal specifically with civil procedure.
- American common law tradition is known as Anglo-American law.
- Discovery refers to the exchange of information prior to trial.
- The relationships between the components and agencies in the American Criminal Justice System are characterized by tension and conflict.
- As to the Courthouse Actors are concerned, court personnel consists of law clerks .
- For the last decade or so, approximately 12-14 million people have been arrested each year.
- Critics of the assigned counsel system suggest that there is no guarantee that the lawyer chosen will be qualified to handle criminal law.
- Community prosecution does not include obtaining the most effective results by focusing on individual arrests.
- In Berger v. U.S., the Supreme Court stated a prosecutor may strike hard blows, but he is not at liberty to strike foul ones.
- Litigants may appeal from their state's court of last resort to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Actus Reus refers to a particular level of criminal intent.
- The Rule of Four means that the majority of the U.S. Court Justices must approve a writ of certiorari petitioning the High Court to hear a case.
- The law that establishes the methods for enforcing legal obligations is not known as substantive law.
- Ninety percent of felony convictions are the product of plea negotiations between the prosecutor and the defense attorney.
- Federal speedy trial laws are designed to protect the interests of society.
- Public Defenders are usually assigned permanently to a single courtroom and usually work everyday with the same judges.
- Centralized administration is a general principle of a unified court system.
- As to discretion, A Governor's pardon is not one of its major subcomponents.
- There are 61 intermediate court of appeal judges in the state of Florida.
- The judges and prosecutors depend on the defense attorney to pressure the defendant to plead guilty.
- The U.S. Court of Appeals is made of 179 judgeships.
- The American Criminal Justice System and its components are unitary and fragmented.
- Law that is found in many sources is generally referred to as codified.
- The U.S. Sentencing Commission is an Agency under the Executive Branch of government.
- Congress created U.S. Magistrate Judges in 1968 to replace the former U.S. Circuits Court Judges of General Jurisdiction.
- Judicial bodies created by Congress under Article I, are commonly referred to as Constitutional Courts.
- Laws or statutes passed by local governments are administrative regulations.
- Juries are never used in appellate court proceedings.
- A probation officer is a courthouse actor in corrections.
- A Sheriff is not a court manager.
- The public defender is the most commonly used method of providing legal representations for the indigent in large cities.
- Only US Attorney is assigned to Guam and the Northern Mariner Islands
- The Due Process Model of the Criminal Justice system is associated with reactionary politics.
- The U.S Constitution is a relatively long document with over 43,000 words.
- The doctrine of using precedent may be referred to as in rem decisis.
- After a person is arrested and booked, the next stop is usually an arraignment.
- Chief Justice Marshall created the power of judicial review in the case of Marbury vs Madison.
- U.S. District Judges are not nominated by the President of the United States and require congress confirmation.
- Self representation is limited to those who can show the trial judge that they have the ability to conduct the trial.
- There are 105 intermediate courts of appeals in the state of California.
- In re Gault supreme court case included the right to consider for juveniles.
- The U.S. District Court system includes 94 districts.
- There are over 11,880 trial courts of limited jurisdiction in the United States.
- Individual decision making is not characteristic of the courtroom work group.
- Defense attorneys known as 'gamblers' maintain a hostile relationship with the prosecutor's office
- The states with two courts of last resort include Oklahoma and Texas.
- There are 5 District Court Appeals in the state of Florida.
- Justice of the peace court is not a trial court of general jurisdiction.
- The solicitor general's office generally requests Supreme Court Review only in cases with a high degree of significance and in which the government has a reasonable legal argument
- Bail agents belong to the public actors of the Courthouse.
- Large prosecutor's offices in big cities generally employ horizontal prosecution.
- The prosecutor is the most important member of the court work group.
- Grand Jury review is required in all federal felony cases.
- Original and appellate jurisdiction fall under the hierarchical jurisdiction classification of jurisdiction.
- A total of 3 to 5 person juries serve on military court proceedings.
- Cases can be thrown out if Defense of Excuse permits defendants to argue that they were somewhere else at the time that the crime was committed.
- In 1996 congress restricted minor disputes in federal court by raising the amount in controversy in civil disputes to $75,000
- Self-defense is an example of Defenses of Justification.
- Robert Jackson once remarked that the prosecutor has more control over life, liberty and reputation than any other person in America.
- Most courts in America are trial courts.
- A trial before a judge without a jury is called a car trial.
- The prosecutor must show probable cause at the preliminary hearing in order to establish that the defendant was involved in the crime.
- If a person contesting a traffic ticket, they may appear in a court of general jurisdiction.
- The average criminal case field in federal courts in the 1970's took 7 months to reach a disposition.
- The U.S. Department of Justice is billed as the world's largest law firm.
- Centralized administration is not therapeutic jurisprudence.
- Cases can be thrown out if Defense of Excuse permits defendants to argue that they were somewhere else at the time that the crime was committed.
- Court opinions expanding the common law or interpreting statutes or constitutions are known as case law.
- After the American Revolution, the power of the state courts was drastically reduced and taken over by the Federal judiciary.
- Berger v. U.S where the Supreme court said that “while a prosecutor may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones"?
- A statute is law enacted by the legislature.
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