Boys State Bar Exam Practice- CA/2018
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
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)
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, 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.
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2025/2026 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
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)
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, 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.
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