Boys State Bar Exam Practice-
CA/2025 Questions and Answers
Who can file and prosecute criminal charges against persons believed to have
committed a crime? - ANSWER✔✔-County District Attorney or State Attorney General
Defendant (in criminal case) - ANSWER✔✔-A person charged with a criminal offense
In whose name are cases filed against a person charged with a criminal offense? -
ANSWER✔✔-Cases are filed in the name of PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
against the person charged with a crime
What are the US and CA Constitutional guarantees to one charged with a crime? -
ANSWER✔✔-The right :
1. To a speedy and public trial by court or jury
2. To appear in person and with counsel (an attorney)
, 3. To produce witnesses on his or her behalf and to be confronted with the witnesses
against him or her in the presence of the Court and jury and cross-examine those
witnesses
4. not to testify (known as "right against self-incrimination")
Felony? - ANSWER✔✔-A felony is a crime punishable by incarceration in the State
prison for one year or longer, and is prosecuted in the Supreme Court by way of a
Grand Jury, or by an "information" filed by the District Attorney
(examples: murder, manslaughter, robbery, burglary, grand theft, forgery, arson, rape,
and sale of narcotics)
Misdemeanor - ANSWER✔✔-All other crimes that aren't felonies or infractions. They
are punishable by fine and/or imprisonment in the County Jail (not State Prison) for a
period of less than one year.
(examples: simple assault, battery, petty theft, possession of small amounts of narcotics,
disturbing the peace and violations of some City or County ordinances.
Infraction - ANSWER✔✔-1. Minor violations of City or County ordinances (a citation -
"a ticket" is usually given and the punishment is usually a fine or assignment to public
service or both)
CA/2025 Questions and Answers
Who can file and prosecute criminal charges against persons believed to have
committed a crime? - ANSWER✔✔-County District Attorney or State Attorney General
Defendant (in criminal case) - ANSWER✔✔-A person charged with a criminal offense
In whose name are cases filed against a person charged with a criminal offense? -
ANSWER✔✔-Cases are filed in the name of PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
against the person charged with a crime
What are the US and CA Constitutional guarantees to one charged with a crime? -
ANSWER✔✔-The right :
1. To a speedy and public trial by court or jury
2. To appear in person and with counsel (an attorney)
, 3. To produce witnesses on his or her behalf and to be confronted with the witnesses
against him or her in the presence of the Court and jury and cross-examine those
witnesses
4. not to testify (known as "right against self-incrimination")
Felony? - ANSWER✔✔-A felony is a crime punishable by incarceration in the State
prison for one year or longer, and is prosecuted in the Supreme Court by way of a
Grand Jury, or by an "information" filed by the District Attorney
(examples: murder, manslaughter, robbery, burglary, grand theft, forgery, arson, rape,
and sale of narcotics)
Misdemeanor - ANSWER✔✔-All other crimes that aren't felonies or infractions. They
are punishable by fine and/or imprisonment in the County Jail (not State Prison) for a
period of less than one year.
(examples: simple assault, battery, petty theft, possession of small amounts of narcotics,
disturbing the peace and violations of some City or County ordinances.
Infraction - ANSWER✔✔-1. Minor violations of City or County ordinances (a citation -
"a ticket" is usually given and the punishment is usually a fine or assignment to public
service or both)
