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SCCJA BLOCK 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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ESTUDY SCCJA BLOCK 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS) Binding Case Law ANSWER IS - Manda tory for court to follow Burden of Proof ANSWER IS - Level of proof a party must present in order to be successful at any given stage in the legal process Capital Crime ANSWER IS - Punishable by death, Involving execution Case Law ANSWER IS - Body of prior Child Molester ANSWER IS - significantly older individual who engages in any type of sexual activity with individuals legally defined as children Common Law ANSWER IS - Judge created by court opinion Double Jeopardy ANSWER IS - fact of being prosecuted or sentenced twice for substantially the same offense Due Process ANSWER IS - conduct of legal proceedings according to established rules and principles for the protection and enforcement of private rights, including notice and the right to a fair hearing before a tribunal with the power to decide the case Executive Branch ANSWER IS - Branch that enforces the law; law enforcement ESTUDY Fighting Words ANSWER IS - words which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace Infamous Crime ANSWER IS - Crime "punishable by imprisonment" Judicial Branch ANSWER IS - Courts; interprets the laws Legislative Branch ANSWER IS - the branch of government that makes the laws Pedophile ANSWER IS - a person who is sexually attracted to children Persuasive Case Law ANSWER IS - law from a case in another jurisdiction Prosecuted ANSWER IS - to follow up or pursue something to a conclusion; to carry on; to take legal action against Rape ANSWER IS - derived from the Latin word rapere; means to "steal" or to "carry away" Published Opinion ANSWER IS - A final note of caution when looking to case law for legal answers. Batson v. Kentucky ANSWER IS - prosecutors may not exclude minorities from juries because of concern that they will favor a defendant of their own race ESTUDY J.E.B. v. Alabama ANSWER IS - Supreme court case that ruled premptory challenges can not be used for gender Reasonable Doubt ANSWER IS - doubt that prevents one from being firmly convinced of a defenda nt's guilt, or the belief that there is a real possibility that a defendant is not guilty; doubt that would cause a reasonable person to hesitate to ac Sextortion ANSWER IS - New form of sexual exploitation that occurs online using non -physical forms Sexual Assault ANSWER IS - statutory term used to describe any number of acts that would allow for the victimization of both males and female Sexual Exploita tion of Children ANSWER IS - victimization involving significant and complex dynamics that go beyond an offender, victim, and sexual act Includes victimization involving sex rings, child pornography, use of technology such as computers, the internet and digital storage devices, sex tourism, and child prostitution Sexual Intercourse ANSWER IS - Heterosexual intercourse involving penetration of the vagina by the penis Intercourse involving genital contact between individual other than penetratio n of the vagina by the penis Sexual Victimization of Children ANSWER IS - Broad term used to encompass all the ways in which a child can be victimized such as the sexual abuse of children, sexual exploitation of children, sexual assault of children, and sexual abduction of children Statutory Law ANSWER IS - Set by legislationThe benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
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