Exam 9: The Court System and Criminal Justice

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A) If you ask a judge, even a state Supreme Court justice, if the court makes policy, he or she will likely deny it vehemently.
B) The judicial branch has a lot of policy-making legitimacy in popular American culture because their decisions are backed by precedent and law.
C) To admit to making policy, a judge would be violating professional norms.
D) Even if a judge wanted to make policy, their agendas would be affected to a much greater degree by events and outsiders than the policy agendas of legislatures or governors.

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A) California has a very simple structure, with only one type of court at each of the three levels.
B) Typically, the more recently a court system has been overhauled, the more complex it is.
C) New York has an extremely complex structure.
D) More complex court structures make the system less understandable to the average person.

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A) Nonpartisan election
B) Gubernatorial appointment
C) Partisan election
D) Merit Plan

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A) citizens are sometimes able to hold justices accountable via merit retention elections.
B) a majority of Iowans support legalizing same-sex marriage.
C) the state legislature is expected to be able to overturn the high court's decision on same-sex marriage.
D) in general, people distrust state supreme court justices.

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A) judicial nullification.
B) judicial dissent.
C) statutory revision.
D) judicial review.

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A) Trial courts
B) Specialty courts
C) Problem-solving courts
D) Small claims courts

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A) Elected judges' decisions tend to reflect the ideology and values of their state's citizens.
B) Elected judges tend to adjust their voting as elections approach.
C) Judicial elections lead to less plea bargaining, more trials, and more dissenting opinions on controversial issues in supreme court decisions.
D) Judges elected on partisan ballots tend to grant higher awards to injured parties than judges selected through other systems.

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A) Drug court
B) Small claims court
C) Traffic court
D) Supreme court

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A) avoid appearances of bribery but not other illicit activities.
B) prevent conflicts of interest developing between judges and campaign donors.
C) take power away from the judiciary and redistribute it among the other two branches.
D) control the type of judges that will eventually be elected to the bench.

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A) Montana
B) Mississippi
C) Maine
D) Missouri

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A) If plea bargains were nonexistent, the cost to the state would be astronomical.
B) Completely innocent people charged with a crime may be intimidated into pleading guilty to reduce a potentially long sentence.
C) Plea bargains give victims of crime the feeling that they have received justice.
D) The already-slow progress of cases through the courts would grind to a halt without plea bargains.

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A) Judicial elections are criticized for being high-turnout, high-information affairs.
B) The original elite appointment system for judges took away the independence of the courts.
C) Elite appointments of judges can influence the type of person who rises to the bench.
D) The legal profession frowns on judicial candidates who offer the sort of information that routinely is seen in campaigns for other political offices.

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A) They employ hundreds of law enforcement officers and clerical workers, such as bailiffs and court reporters.
B) They administer various state legislative statutes through discretionary hearings.
C) They administer the court system's budget through the state budget process and run its personnel system.
D) They assign lower court judges to specific courts and hire and assign temporary judges as needed.

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A) A person cannot appeal a trial court decision simply because he or she lost the case.
B) Legitimate grounds for an appeal in civil or criminal law have nothing to do with the facts of the case.
C) A case can only be appealed based on questions about either the fairness of the trial or the constitutionality of the law involved.
D) All state court systems have one level of appellate courts, deciding both questions of fairness and constitutionality.

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A) Case facts and existing legal decisions
B) The ideology of the justices and the state's population
C) A justice's party affiliation and gender
D) The religion of the justice and the defendant

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