CJ 1001 - Quiz #2

2. About ... percent of all felony convictions in the US courts derive from plea negotiations
3. A "not guilty" verdict
8. According to the jury trial documentary, about a …of individuals who are summoned for jury duty in the US each year report for the duty
9. Targeted enforcement policing strategy
12. Order by the Department of Justice that offers means to oversee police activity by the federal government
15. Component of police subculture; police officers unwilling to turn against each other
16. Jurors who sit on a trial but participate in deliberations only as back-up (if one of the regular jurors is prevented from deliberating)
17. The standard of proof required in criminal trials is "proof beyond a ..."
19. Main function of the criminal courts consisting of determining guilt of defendants charged with crimes
20. Jury selection process consisting of systematic questioning of potential jurors to detect biases

1. Policing strategy calling for searching people on streets (usually for guns) without a warrant
4. During a criminal trial, the jury should only be the ... of facts and the judge is the ... of law
5. Racial ... by police is one potential source of racial disproportionality
6. A jury that cannot reach the required agreement on a verdict
7. Jury arriving at a verdict by disregarding the applicable law, in protest to its perceived unjustness
10. The difference in punishment that defendants who do not plead guilty may receive when compared to those who plead guilty
11. When all jurors agree on a verdict it means that they arrived at a ... verdict
13. The process of negotiation between prosecution and defense in which the prosecutor offers incentives for the defendant to admit guilt
14. US State that banned plea negotiation for more than two decades
18. Main feature of American trials (opposing parties present competing versions of the truth in front of a neutral arbiter)