Exam 11: Determination of Guilt Plea Bargaining and Trials

Which is not true concerning plea bargaining?

Which is not a strategy that a defense attorney representing a client will employ?

The behavior of the defendant in the courtroom has no impact on how he or she is treated by the judge.  Courtrooms are fact-based environments.

Although challenges for cause fall ultimately under the judge's control, the prosecution and defense can exert their own control over the jury's composition through the use of _____.

Plea bargaining continued to occur in Tennessee even after it was banned.

A plea of guilty must be _______.

According to the ruling in _____, prosecutors may, for example, threaten repeat offenders with life sentences under habitual offender statutes if they do not agree to plead guilty and accept specified terms of imprisonment.

In Boykin v. Alabama (1969), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that

The local view of the proper sentence is called the _______.

The number of appeals in both the state and federal courts has increased during recent decades.

How would a ban on plea bargaining impact the U.S. criminal justice system?

Values and norms do not affect the functioning of a courtroom.

Oral evidence provided by a legally competent witness is called ______.

Eli is a public defender who is representing his client in a first-degree murder case.  A plea arrangement could not be arranged, so the case is going to trial.  In a matter of weeks, Eli will be forced to help seat a jury.  He is hoping to have a chance to select jurors who will sympathize with his client, who grew up in abject poverty and has a low IQ. Eli is not sure what the outcome of this case will be considering that there is not an eyewitness to testify. Lacking DNA evidence and an eye witness to the crime, Eli believes the prosecutor may use his defendant's poverty to create a case based on the jury drawing conclusions from ______ evidence.

Although most people believe the U.S. court system is adversarial, in reality, the judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney work together to move cases through the system. What implications does this system have for a defendant's due process rights?

Unstable _____ lack all three workgroup criteria: close working relationships, shared values, and reasons to cooperate.

_______ -member juries must vote unanimously to convict a defendant.

Is the jury selection process used in U.S. courts fair to defendants? Discuss how some defendants may be  disadvantaged by the system?

In a workgroup, the participants share the same duties and responsibilities.

Explain the appellate process within criminal courts.