JOMC 486 UNL TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Criminal cases: - ✔✔The government prosecutes someone it suspects has violated
a criminal statue
✔✔Most crimes are prosecuted in state courts under state law-federal courts - ✔✔hear
cases involving violations of relatively few federal criminal laws
✔✔State represented by attorney: - ✔✔county prosecutor/county attorney/district
attorney (can be any of these names- Nebraska is district attorney)
✔✔Prosecuting attorney - ✔✔evidence of the crime committed- brings charges against
that person
✔✔Federal - ✔✔person cannot be tried for a felony unless that person has been
indicted by a grand jury
✔✔Arraignment - ✔✔defendants official appearance in court
✔✔Defendant pleads guilty- - ✔✔court sets a date for sentencing
✔✔Defendant pleads not-guilty - ✔✔court conducts a bail hearing to determine if
defendant can be released on bail, and if so, how large a bond the defendant has to
post- defendants last appearance in federal court before a trial
✔✔Example of the process: - ✔✔county prosecutor files a complaint—judge issues an
arrest warrant—arrested, brought before the county court for a bond hearing—(pleading
not-guilty) the court will set the amount of bond the accused needs to post to be
released from custody and any other conditions
✔✔Preliminary hearing - ✔✔determines whether the prosecutor has evidence that a
crime has been committed and that the defendant more likely than not committed it.
This then goes to district court
✔✔Most felony cases never go to trial (fun fact!!!!!!!) - ✔✔they end in a plea bargain-
agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or to only one of several charges or pleads
guilty with the understanding that the prosecution will recommend leniency (the fact of
quality of being more merciful or tolerant than expected) in sentencing.
✔✔The trial: - ✔✔Finding the jury
Presentation of evidence from attorney
GRADED A+
✔✔Criminal cases: - ✔✔The government prosecutes someone it suspects has violated
a criminal statue
✔✔Most crimes are prosecuted in state courts under state law-federal courts - ✔✔hear
cases involving violations of relatively few federal criminal laws
✔✔State represented by attorney: - ✔✔county prosecutor/county attorney/district
attorney (can be any of these names- Nebraska is district attorney)
✔✔Prosecuting attorney - ✔✔evidence of the crime committed- brings charges against
that person
✔✔Federal - ✔✔person cannot be tried for a felony unless that person has been
indicted by a grand jury
✔✔Arraignment - ✔✔defendants official appearance in court
✔✔Defendant pleads guilty- - ✔✔court sets a date for sentencing
✔✔Defendant pleads not-guilty - ✔✔court conducts a bail hearing to determine if
defendant can be released on bail, and if so, how large a bond the defendant has to
post- defendants last appearance in federal court before a trial
✔✔Example of the process: - ✔✔county prosecutor files a complaint—judge issues an
arrest warrant—arrested, brought before the county court for a bond hearing—(pleading
not-guilty) the court will set the amount of bond the accused needs to post to be
released from custody and any other conditions
✔✔Preliminary hearing - ✔✔determines whether the prosecutor has evidence that a
crime has been committed and that the defendant more likely than not committed it.
This then goes to district court
✔✔Most felony cases never go to trial (fun fact!!!!!!!) - ✔✔they end in a plea bargain-
agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or to only one of several charges or pleads
guilty with the understanding that the prosecution will recommend leniency (the fact of
quality of being more merciful or tolerant than expected) in sentencing.
✔✔The trial: - ✔✔Finding the jury
Presentation of evidence from attorney
