CRIM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Preliminary Hearing, Oxygen Mask, Search Warrant
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Adjudication: decision process by the courts, case has been decided, disposition (outcome of case) Bail: pay money and promise to return for trial. Bench trial: judge decides, no jury present (cid:2) (cid:2) Involved in every phase of a case: search warrant, arrest warrant, preliminary hearing, bail, decisions, pre-trial motions, jury selection. Sometimes it"s the same judge in every phase, but it can be different. Public defender: paid by county, handle cases for people who are poor. Contracted public defender: has own legal practice in addition to being a public. Counsel: appointed to a time consuming case (ex. Homicide: pd or contracted pd don"t have time for long cases. Defense counsel: paid and hired by the defendant (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) Jurors answer a questionnaire before coming to jury selection. Voir dire: judges conduct this over the group, makes sure the jury is not bias. Sequestration: jury is isolated from the general public during trial.
