Judicial Administration Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Judicial Administration explores the organization, management, and operation of courts and judicial systems. The course examines the roles and responsibilities of court personnel, case flow management, judicial decision-making, and the implementation of court policies and procedures. Students study topics such as court structure, docket management, budgetary and personnel administration, access to justice, and the impact of technology on the judiciary. Emphasis is placed on strategies to improve court efficiency, effectiveness, and fairness while addressing contemporary challenges faced by modern judicial institutions.
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America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System 11th Edition by David W. Neubauer
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Chapter 1: Courts, Crime, and Controversy
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Q1) Approximately 2.5 million people work in the criminal justice system.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Most state judges are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) The Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v.Mississippi was based on:
A) the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause
B) the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination
C) the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizures
D) the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment
Answer: A
Q4) Around ninety percent of felony convictions result from:
A)a plea bargain
B)a trial by jury
C)a bench trial
D)a preliminary hearing
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Law and Crime
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Q1) Much of the Bill of Rights has been made applicable to the states through the:
A)Fourth Amendment
B)doctrine of precedent
C)legislative process
D)Fourteenth Amendment
Answer: D
Q2) Necessity is not a defense recognized by law.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In a limited number of criminal offenses, the _____ of the illegal act plays a critical part in defining the crime.
Answer: result
Q4) Which of the following is not a major area of civil law?
A) personal injury
B) inheritance/probate
C) divorce and child custody
D) juvenile delinquency
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Federal Courts
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Q1) Typically sitting in panels of three, _____ review the records in cases appealed from district courts.
Answer: circuit
Q2) What cases involve suits between citizens of different states or between a U.S.citizen and a foreign country or citizen?
A)diversity of citizenship cases
B)mandamus cases
C)en banc cases
D)venue cases
Answer: A
Q3) The U.S.Constitution states that "no more than fifteen, nor less than seven justices shall be approved by Congress to serve on the Supreme Court."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) A prisoner _____ is a civil lawsuit filed by an inmate alleging violations of his or her rights.
Answer: petition
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Chapter 4: State Courts
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Q1) Both justice of the peace courts and _____ courts are considered lower courts.
Q2) Technology is shaping the future of courts through _____ communications.
Q3) Some states have two courts of last resort-one for civil appeals and another for criminal appeals.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain and describe California's Three Strike's Law by making reference to the Ewing case from California. Explain the rationale for the law and why Ewing appealed his conviction to the U.S.Supreme Court. Explain the Supreme Court's ruling in the case, and your thoughts about the decision rendered.
Q5) What is another name for a trial court of limited jurisdiction?
A)inferior court
B)district court
C)superior court
D)circuit court
Q6) In states without intermediate appellate courts the supreme courts has discretion regarding the cases it hears.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The Dynamics of Courthouse Justice
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Q1) What right did Barker's lawyer argue was violated?
A)the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial.
B)the Seventh Amendment right to a speedy trial.
C)the Eighth Amendment right to a speedy trial.
D)the Fourth Amendment right to a speedy trial.
Q2) Explain why discretionary decision making occurs in the criminal courts and provide some specific examples of prosecutorial discretion.
Q3) How are newcomers to a courtroom taught formal requirements of the job and informal rules of behavior?
A)training
B)mutual interdependence
C)discretion
D)socialization
Q4) Interactions between members of the courtroom work group strictly follow the adversarial model.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Clerks of court and court _____ work behind the scenes.
Q6) The _____ is the officer who presides in a court of law.
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Chapter 6: Prosecutors
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Q1) The U.S.Solicitor General is sometimes referred to as the _____ Justice.
Q2) Who are U.S.Attorneys appointed by?
A)The President.
B)The Senate.
C)The Vice President.
D)The Congress.
Q3) When prosecutors are not acting as the government's advocate in some judicial phase of the criminal justice process they enjoy only qualified immunity for their actions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Duke lacrosse team rape case has become the contemporary poster child for prosecutorial _____.
Q5) The three most important entities in federal prosecution are the U.S.Solicitor General, the Criminal Division of the U.S.Department of Justice, and
A)the offices of 94 U.S.State Attorneys.
B)the offices of 94 U.S.General Attorneys.
C)the offices of 94 U.S.Statutory Attorneys.
D)the offices of 94 U.S.Attorneys.
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Chapter 7: Defense Attorneys
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Q1) The public defender system was started where in 1914?
A)Chicago
B)Los Angeles
C)New York City
D)Seattle
Q2) An advantage to the public defender system is that
A)it likely provides more experienced counsel.
B)excellent private attorneys may be appointed.
C)legal fees are kept down because attorneys compete for clients.
D)the Due Process Model is more likely to be followed.
Q3) Which method of providing legal representation for indigent defendants is the most common in large cities?
A)assigned counsel
B)contract
C)public defender
D)pro bono
Q4) Choose several U.S.Supreme Court decisions that pertain to the right to court-appointed counsel for indigent defendants and explain the significance of each.
Q5) Most lawyers practice civil law because it is more _____.
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Chapter 8: Judges
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Q1) Judges are appointed by executives, elected by the voters, or appointed through a merit selection process.The various selection systems produce judges with very similar backgrounds, including local ties and past political involvement.No evidence exists that one selection system systematically produces "better" or "worse" judges than another, although research does reveal some differences in judicial approaches to decision making.Describe the system you believe is best and provide support for your argument.
Q2) What term means allegations of judicial wrongdoing?
A)removal
B)impeachment
C)conviction
D)none of these
Q3) Judges may be impeached.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Over the past several decades, the composition of the bench has become
A)more diverse
B)more white
C)less diverse
D)more male dominated
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Chapter 9: Defendants, Victims, and Witnesses
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Q1) Victim's Bill of Rights seek to provide rights for victims because _____ already have rights.
Q2) Victims and witnesses are generally eager to work with the criminal justice system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compared to the average citizen, a felony defendant is more likely to be
A)younger
B)male
C)a racial minority
D)All of these answers are correct
Q4) As prosecutorial dominance increased in the United States, the power of victims declined.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Victims and witnesses face frustrations in coping with the court process
A)but overall exhibit surprising support for the system
B)and almost never show up for court
C)and overall resent the system as a result
D)none of these answers is correct
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Chapter 10: Arrest to Arraignment
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Q1) According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, property crimes outnumber violent offenses by a ratio of
A)4 to 1.
B)8 to 1.
C)10 to 1.
D)20 to 1.
Q2) What criminal justice actors is most likely to file a bill of information?
A)the judge
B)the prosecutor
C)the grand jury
D)the defense attorney
Q3) Which of the following are index crimes?
A)robbery.
B)embezzlement.
C)drug offenses.
D)forgery.
Q4) The primary function of a grand jury is to _____ whether probable cause exists to believe that the defendant committed the crime or crimes charged.
Q5) Pretrial release without monetary bail is release on _____.
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Chapter 11: Disclosing and Suppressing Evidence
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Q1) Reciprocal disclosure by the defense during discovery is limited because the Constitution affords certain fundamental protections to the defendant.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The particularity requirement means that
A)warrants should be as detailed as possible.
B)applications for warrants should be as detailed as possible.
C)arrest warrants should be as detailed as possible.
D)search warrants should be as detailed as possible.
Q3) The informal and formal exchange of information between the prosecutor and the defense attorney prior to trial is called what?
A)reciprocity
B)prosecutorial disclosure
C)discovery
D)Brady exchange
Q4) Because pretrial motions to suppress evidence are relatively _____, the exclusionary rule does not generally impact the operations of the courtroom work group in most cases
Q5) Miranda applies only to _____ interrogations.
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Chapter 12: Negotiated Justice and the Plea of Guilty
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Q1) What do adherents of the crime control model oppose plea bargaining?
A)they believe prosecutors are lazy
B)they believe judges are lazy
C)they believe defendants get off too lightly
D)they believe defendants are forced to give up constitutional rights.
Q2) Which of the following is true of "straight up" pleas?
A)they occur frequently
B)they never occur
C)there is no such thing
D)they occur rarely
Q3) Trials are a _____ and time-consuming means of establishing guilt.
Q4) In what case did the Court hold that a plea of guilty was more than an admission of guilt and also involved the waiver of important constitutional rights?
A)Boykin v.Alabama.
B)Santobello v.New York.
C)Lafler v.Cooper.
D)Missouri v.Frye.
Q5) Defendants will opt for a trial if a prison sentence may be high.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Trials and Juries
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Q1) A gag order prohibits anyone involved in a case-police, prosecutor, defense attorney, defendant-from talking to the press.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When citizens are selected to be in a jury pool, they will be notified via a(n) _____, a document that commands these selected citizens to appear at the courthouse for jury duty.
Q3) Under the _____ standard, reliability is the linchpin to admissibility of expert testimony.
Q4) The _____ Amendment guarantees that "in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury."
Q5) A judicial order that prohibits persons involved with the case from providing information to the media is called a _____ order.
Q6) What technique do jury consultants use to help attorneys develop convincing trial presentations? What does the research generally show with regard to the effectiveness of jury consultants?
Q7) Before jury deliberations the judge _____ the jury with regard to the applicable law.
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Chapter 14: Sentencing Options
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Q1) What is the best-known example of shock incarceration?
A)probation
B)intensive supervision probation
C)parole
D)boot camp
Q2) The Prison Litigation Reform Act severely limited the federal courts' supervisory powers over what?
A)state probation programs
B)city prisons
C)city probation programs
D)state prisons
Q3) A sum of money paid to the government by a person convicted of an offense as punishment is called
A)a fine
B)restitution
C)community service
D)compensation
Q4) State efforts to make non-homicide cases death eligible have been _____ by the Supreme Court.
Q5) The term death-_____ refers to crimes that are punishable by death.
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Chapter 15: Sentencing Decisions
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Q1) What is the main objective of changes in sentencing structure?
A)increase in judicial discretion
B)reduction in judicial discretion
C)reduction in prosecutorial discretion
D)increase in prosecutorial discretion
Q2) Discrimination refers to legitimate influences on the sentencing processes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Failure to submit a sentencing factor to a jury is subject to what kind of review?
A)harmless error review.
B)harmful error review.
C)strict scrutiny review.
D)harmless scrutiny review.
Q4) What were the main objectives of changes in sentencing structures beginning in the 1960s? What were the major consequences of these changes?
Q5) In U.S.v.Booker (2005) the U.S.Supreme Court held that the federal sentencing guidelines were unconstitutional, but allowed judges to continue to use them in a(n) _____ capacity.
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Chapter 16: Appellate and Habeas Corpus Review
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Q1) The majority of appeals involve what type of cases?
A)civil cases
B)juvenile cases
C)criminal cases
D)environmental cases
Q2) Postconviction remedies may only be filed by those actually in _____.
Q3) Which of the following is true of many state court systems regarding postconviction remedies?
A)they are unlimited
B)the are strictly limited
C)prisoners can only file them pro se
D)attorneys for filing are provided
Q4) Discuss the customary steps that must be taken to file an appeal and explain how the appellate practice differs from trial work.
Q5) The amount of deference afforded by an appellate court is referred to as the _____ of review.
Q6) Post-conviction remedies such as habeas corpus are called _____ attacks.
Q7) Questions of fact are reviewed for _____ error.
Q8) The two primary functions of _____ are error correction and policy formation..
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Chapter 17: Juvenile Courts
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Q1) Discuss the five ways that juvenile courts differ from adult courts.How does this fit with the philosophy of the progressives and the child-savers?
Q2) Juvenile courts emphasize _____ the child.
Q3) The "trial" to determine whether a youth is guilty or not guilty is called what in juvenile court?
A)initial hearing
B)detention hearing
C)adjudicatory hearing
D)conference hearing
Q4) In the juvenile justice system, parents are considered to have sole and exclusive legal responsibility over their children.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Juvenile court matters fall into how many different categories of supervision?
A)one
B)four
C)two
D)three
Q6) The doctrine of parens _____ authorizes the state to act as a parent.
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