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Define plea bargaining and discuss its effects on the operation of the criminal justice system. What impact does it have on the defendant

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Plea bargaining is the exchange of prose...

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A(n) ____ is a charging document drawn up by a prosecutor in jurisdictions that do not use the grand jury system.

A) warrant
B) complaint
C) indictment
D) information

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If a verdict cannot be reached, the trial may result in a ________.

Critics suggest that bail is costly because the government must pay to detain poor offenders who would otherwise remain in the community.

Which of the following is a reason for which a jury can nullify the facts and evidence of a case

The ____ Amendment to the Constitution prohibits excessive bail.

With pretrial diversion programs there was always a suspicion that they would _________________ of the justice system.

An information is the charging document filed by the prosecution in a preliminary hearing.

Describe how each of the five innovative bail systems works.

The determination of guilt or innocence is called_______________.

Zack has just pled not guilty by reason of insanity to killing his parents and his brother. He was arrested walking down the street without any clothes on with dried blood all over him. He has always been an introvert, and people used to call him names and say that he was crazy. Over the past couple of years, Zack has had a lot of black-out type situations where he doesn't remember the days before he finds himself somewhere unfamiliar doing something strange. -Zack has spent the better part of two years in a locked psychiatric facility awaiting trial. He feels ill from the medicine they make him take, he doesn't recognize the man that they say is his attorney and now he cannot remember his full name. At this point what is Zack's most important legal issue at trial

The _____ Amendment guarantees the defendant the right to a jury trial.

Sara, an 18-year old college student uses cocaine occasionally and was just arrested for buying $200 worth. After spending the night in jail, she is ready to put this whole episode behind her. When she appears before the judge, she has a public defender representing her and the attorney has assured Sara that this is no big deal as it was her first offense. -Sara's bail is surprisingly high for $200 of cocaine. In fact, her lawyer calls it excessive. What can Sara and her lawyer do to change the situation

In about half the states, a ____________________ is used as an alternative to the grand jury.

A defendant's options for a plea are guilty, not guilty, or nolo contendere.

The determination of an arrestee's eligibility for citation release and the actual release of the arrestee are deferred until after he or she has been delivered by the arresting department to a jail/pretrial detention facility for screening, booking, and admission in a:

The ____________________ mandated that no defendant shall be kept in pretrial detention simply because they cannot afford money bail.

It is unlikely that plea bargaining will be eliminated in the future because it:

Diversion programs allow a defendant to enter treatment instead of trial.

Compare and contrast the grand jury and preliminary hearing models.