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One type of plea agreement is termed ____________________ bargaining. In return for
the defendant's guilty plea, the prosecutor allows the defendant to plead guilty to a less
serious charge than the one originally filed.
Describe the four most common ways that defendants can secure pretrial release?
Which is the most common? Why?
The power of a jury to ignore the law is called jury ________________________.
Compare and contrast the tasks of trial and appellate courts.
Judges, lawyers, clerks, court stenographers, law clerks, and bailiffs work inside the
courtroom.
In some courthouses civil and criminal cases are heard in the same courtroom during
the same court session.
Many judges dislike Alford pleas because, even though the defendant pleads guilty, the
defendant still maintains her/his ________________________.
Grand juries generally indict whomever the ____________________ wants indicted.
Direct _________________________ involves an offender making monetary payments
to the victim.
Appellate courts often release defendants on legal technicalities.
Courthouse ____________________ are dissatisfied with the status quo and will fight
to change it.
The ________________of a crime provide the technical definition of a crime.
A(n) ____________________ defense means that the defendant claims the crime was
committed while the s/he was somewhere else, and thus could not have been the
perpetrator.
Discuss the rationale for and give examples of community prosecution.
The term death- refers to crimes that are punishable by death.
_____________________ evidence is any evidence that may be favorable to the
defendant at trial either by tending to case doubt on the defendant's guilt or tending to
mitigate the defendant's culpability, thereby potentially reducing the defendant's
sentence.
There may be as many as 28 judges who work together to make an appellate court
decision.
Lower courts are typically controlled only by local governmental bodies that create and
fund them.
The best-____________________ rule means that to prove the content of a writing,
recording, or photograph, the original is generally required since a copy is too easily
altered.
