Overview Criminal Justice System

The process in which cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision

• Demand a retrial

• Stand mute before the judge

• An appeal

• Declare a mistrial

A jury, normally of twenty-three jurors, seledcted to examine the validity of an accusation before trial.

• Trial Jury

• Hung Jury

• Writ of execution

• Grand Jury

A pre-trial stage to hear the charge and allow a plea is:

• Complaint

• Arraignment

• Bench trial

• Process of discovery

When a person is released before the completion of a sentence on the promise of good behavior:

• Parole

• Waiver

• Amnesty

• Judicial will and pleasure

A process where the prosecutor, defense attorney, and judge agree to waive certain charges for the expedience or convenience of the court:

• Probationary sentence

• Judicial will and pleasure

• a Judicial waiver

• Plea bargain

When a trial or jury is moved from one jurisdiction to another for just cause it is called:

• Change of venue

• Judicial modification

• trial de neovo

• Re-trial of fact

A politically defined

geographical area. (a city, a county, a

state, or a nation)

• Booking

• Jurisdiction

• Venue

• Mapping

A document specifying that an offense has been committed.

• Indictment

• Complaint

• Felony

• Misdemeanor

A document that outlines the formal charge against a suspect.

• Complaint

• Misdemeanor

• Indictment

• Felony

A crime generally punishable by a

fine or by incarceration in jail for not more

than one year and less than $1000.00

• Felony

• Complaint

• Misdemeanor

• Ordinace