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Emily Cowick CJ-207 Assignment 5-2 Template: Processes and Procedures of the Court System Complete the following template by replacing the bracketed text with your responses. Key Steps Identify the 8 key steps a defendant moves through in the criminal justice process. Put them in order from first to last. 1. Arrest and Investigation: First step in the process is to investigate the crime. With arrest to follow. 2. Booking: Secondly, the defendant is taken to the police station for the booking process. 3. Initial Appearance: Defendant is brought before a judge. 4. Preliminary Hearing: Courts determine whether there is enough evidence to charge the defendant. 5. Arraignment: Defendant appears in court and enters a plea. 6. Plea Bargaining: Defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for a reduction or sentence reduction. 7. Trial/Sentencing: Case presented to a judge and determination on guilty or nonguilty. 8. Appeal: Appeals made by the defendant to have charges dropped or sentence reduced. Similarities and Differences Identify 2-3 key differences and similarities and differences between civil and criminal juries. Similarity: Juries in both types of trials will be in the courtroom listening to both parties present their case. Difference: Criminal cases need a unanimous verdict from the jury must be made. Civil cases: a less than unanimous verdict is accepted such as 9 to 3. Similarity: Jury deliberations are done in private in both cases. Difference: Criminal cases they judge is the only person that imposes sentencing with the exception of cases involving a possible death penalty. Civil cases: the jury sides with the plaintiff. The jury suggests the amount of money the defendant should pay the plaintiff. Similarity: Jury members are picked from a jury pool that was assembled by the courts. Difference: Criminal cases the jury must examine if trial evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty. Civil cases: jury examines evidence to decide if the defendant is liable by preponderance of the evidence.
Emily Cowick Works Cited Criminal Justice . (2023). Retrieved from CliffsNotes: https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/criminal- justice/the-criminal-justice-system/the-process-of-criminal-justice Hemmens, C., Brody, D., & Spohn, C. (2021). Criminal Courts (5th ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc (US). Retrieved from https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/books/9781071833872
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