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In some courthouses, civil and criminal cases are heard in the same courtroom during the same court session.

There are five layers in a typical state court system.

In some jurisdictions, misdemeanor defendants enter a plea of guilty and are sentenced at which stage?

Studies indicate that which of the following are overrepresented in the jail population?

Historically, children under age __________ were presumed to be incapable of criminal intent.

Sometimes, the police exercise considerable influence by pressuring prosecutors to overcharge defendants or to file charges even though the evidence is weak.

Felony defendants are most likely to:

Which annual event focuses on the plight of crime victims?

Which type of panels are typically used by intermediate courts of appeals?

CASE 4.2 The nature of the juvenile court process remained unchanged until the 1960s. When the Warren Court began to scrutinize procedures in adult criminal courts, its attention turned also to juvenile courts. In a groundbreaking decision, the Supreme Court held in In re Gault (1967) that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applied to juvenile court proceedings. The court emphasized that “under our Constitution the condition of being a boy does not justify a kangaroo court Gault and subsequent cases signaled that the juvenile court must become a real court and its procedures must be regularized in accordance with: