Exam 4: Pretrial Supervision, Sentencing, and the Presentence Investigation Report

Pretrial release programs supervise individuals who have been

Courts have held that a defendant does not have a(n) _______ Amendment right to have an attorney present during the initial probation interview.

A(n) _____________ allows defendants to remain at liberty in the community until their next court date without paying the court a deposit..

A(n) _____ is a person responsible for the debt of a defendant if he or she fails to appear at the next court appearance.

The part of the PSI that presents the offender's probability of risk to the community, the amount of harm the offender caused, the defendant's ability to pay monetary costs, and the defendant's need for treatment is the

Hearsay information may be permitted in a PSI report, if the judge is willing to waive the verification necessity.

When compiling a PSI, the probation officer may choose to interview a number of different people, including the offender's family and friends, employer, school officials, and others, all of which are known as collateral contacts.

_____ is a form of justice whereby each defendant's case is considered by a judge, parole board, or decision-making authority according to its harms, subjectivities, wrongs, and contexts.

Special conditions are stipulations tailored to fit the problems and needs of the offender, and generally are related to the offense of conviction.

What are "special conditions" of probation? How are they applied? Use examples from the text in your essay.

The post-conviction stage in which the defendant is brought before the court for formal judgment pronounced by a judge is known as ______________.

PSI reports often contain information that is inadmissible in court. Imagine you are preparing one for a judge on a statutory rape trial. The defendant was 18 and the victim was 16. Who would you interview? What type of information would you collect? Do you think the benefits of your report outweigh the threats to judicial impartiality? Why or why not?

In both the state and federal systems, pretrial services recommend the _________________ available to the court, taking into consideration the safety of the community and the defendant's likelihood of reappearance in court.

___________________ is an agency that assists the court in deciding whom to release and whom to detain based on validated assessment instruments and a pretrial interview of the defendant.