Criminal Procedure Exam 1 With 100% Correct Answers 2024

balancing - correct answer-securing public safety for the whole community while protecting the liberty and privacy of each individual proportionality - correct answer-using no more state power and resources than are needed to prevent, investigate, prosecute, sentence, and review official actions taken to provide for the ideals of public safety and individual autonomy equal justice - correct answer-impartial treatment of innocent and guilty individuals by law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges accuracy - correct answer-avoiding "errors of justice," "harassing and sanctioning innocent people," and/or "failure to sanction culpable officers" evidence-based decision making - correct answer-relies on 2 types of evidence: legal (direct or circumstantial) and empirical (basic and policy) case citation - correct answer-the string of numbers and letters that appears after the name of a case and identifies the source of a case United States Reports - correct answer-the official U.S. government publication of U.S. Supreme Court cases The Federal Reporter - correct answer-the journal that reports U.S. Court of Appeals decisions procedural history of the case - correct answer-a brief description of the procedural steps and judgments made by each court government officials' acts - correct answer-the actions that defendants claim violated the Constitution objective basis (quantum of proof) - correct answer-the facts and circumstances that back up the government officials' actions hunch (mere suspicion) - correct answer-mere suspicion to justify restriction of freedom of movement or privacy without facts or circumstances to back up the actions court's judgment (disposition) - correct answer-the most important legal action of the court; the court's official decision in the case Court opinons - correct answer-the written explanations of the court's judgment