T7, L5 and 6: The Judicial Branch

Who is a Juvenile Offender?

• Anyone under 18 who commits a crime

• A Senior Citizen who commits a crime

• A police officer who catches a criminal

• A rehabilitation officer

Who has the burden of proof in a criminal case

• The Judge

• The Defendant

• The Witness

• The Prosecution

A person charged with a criminal offence is called the...

• Persecutor

• Coroner

• Defendant

• Lawyer

Which set of laws were seen as one of the first set of Laws and had very harsh punishments for those who broke these Laws? This is also where the idea of eye for an eye comes from.

• Magna Carta

• Ten Commandments

• English Bill of Rights

• Code of Hammurabi

What is statutory law?

• Law passed by government legislatures

• Regulations passed by government agencies

• Past decisions made by the Supreme Court

• Unwritten laws that have been followed as customs

Scenario

Two active duty soldiers leave the base and visits the local town. They become upset with each other, and one assaults the other, starting a fight. The owner of the store calls the police. There was no damage to the store, but since the men had physically assaulted each other, the police brought them back to their base and dropped them off to their supervisor.

What type of law would determine the outcome of this case?

• constitutional law

• civil law

• criminal law

• military law

Which of the following situations would fall under constitutional law?

• A city tries to prevent a newspaper from publishing a story about corruption

• A doctor cheated Medicare by making up false claims for visits that didn't happen

• A soldier steals from another soldier's footlocker

• A person sues a business for an injury she received on their property

What is common law?

• laws that are determined by the outcomes of court cases that have occurred previously

• laws that are actions that are naturally considered as right or wrong

• laws that are passed in response to concerns of the public

• laws refers to codes or regulations that all branches of the military share

The excerpt below is Clause 39 from the Magna Carta.

No free man shall be seized, imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed, exiled or ruined in any way, nor in any way proceeded against, excerpt by the lawful judgment of his peers and the law of the land.

To what legal practice still used today in the United States does the clause "except the lawful judgment of his peers" refer?

• A judge who presides over a court case in the district where the crime occurred

• A jury composed of citizens from the region where the case is heard

• The lawyers who represent the defense

• The lawyer who prosecute the defendant

This orders a lower court to deliver its records in a case so that a higher court may review it

• brief

• precedent

• writ of certorari

• per curiam