Exam 7: Courts, Prosecution, and the Defense

Increasingly videoconferencing is used across the United States and is now used in about 400 courts.​

Under the _____________________, the burden is on the state to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.

Which of the following is false regarding appellate courts

North Carolina v. Pearce and Blackledge vv. Perry are cases that address the issue of __________.​

The prosecution represents the state during bail hearings in the pretrial stage.

In the federal system, prosecutors are appointed by:

The US Supreme Court is the only court established by constitutional mandate.

In ___________ the US Supreme Court defined the concept of attorney competence in 1984.​

Discuss how judicial attitudes may extend beyond the courtroom.

________________prosecution policies require prosecutors to bring charges against domestic abusers regardless of whether the victim participates.

Each state has one court of last resort that reviews issues of law and fact appealed from the trial courts.

The US court of appeals is empowered only to hear federal cases on substantive and procedural issues involving rights guaranteed by the US Constitution.

Detail the various forms of indigent defense systems used in the United States.

The federal government has a three-tiered hierarchy of court jurisdiction, which includes all of the following except the:

The concept of attorney competence was defined by the U.S. Supreme Court in what case

What is the duty of a defense lawyer to his or her client and the legal system

Describe the US Supreme Court and explain how a case becomes heard in this court.

The concept of attorney competence was defined by the US Supreme Court in the case of Strickland v. Washington.

A.J. is a minority who is walking his dog in a city that has an ordinance to make sure people clean up after their dogs. Of course A.J. has never seen this ordinance enforced, so he just continues walking after his dog defecates. He doesn't know that a rookie patrolman has been watching and observed him fail to clean up his dog's waste. A.J. walks around the corner to find a whole wall of freshly painted graffiti and spray paint cans on the ground. He picks one up to put it in the trash just as the patrolman is walking around the corner to give A.J. an ordinance violation ticket. -A.J. is suing the rookie patrolman for defamation of character and racial profiling. He thinks that the patrolman assumed that he was the perpetrator of the graffiti because he is a minority. What can a state court judge do for A.J. in his defamation case

In the federal system prosecutors are known as ___________________ and are appointed by the president.