Deck 1: Exploring Legal Systems, Policing, and Criminal Justice Cases

Question 1

Explain the methods and purpose of the adversarial system in the United States.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Describe the "knock and announce" rule and how it applies to the police.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Where is sex trafficking more likely to occur?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What preconviction process benefits the defense by avoiding the risk of a harsher punishment and benefits the prosecution by avoiding the risk of acquittal?

A) plea bargaining
B) pretrial release
C) pretrial detention
D) peremptory challenges

Question 5

The adversarial system uses several means to get at the truth.

Question 6

In early 2019, it was announced that dying from an accidental opioid overdose is higher than from a motor vehicle accident.

Question 7

Aaron Hernandez was a former NFL player who was convicted of murdering a former friend. His case would be considered a "celebrated case" in the wedding cake model. If a person who was not a public figure carried out an identical crime, that case would fall under which layer of the wedding cake model?

A) celebrated cases
B) serious felonies
C) lesser felonies
D) misdemeanors