Georgia Law- GPSTC Tifton Exam
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Three Components to the CJ System - ✔✔-Law Enforcement
-Courts
-Corrections
Five Stages within the CJ Process - ✔✔-Entry
-Prosecution and Pre-Trial services
-Adjudication
-Sentencing
-Corrections
Where can criminal law in the US be found in? - ✔✔-common law
-constitution
-statutes
-administration/regulatory agencies
What is the purpose of the Constitution? - ✔✔sets the boundaries within which
government is permitted to operate and applies to government officials
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,What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights? - ✔✔limit the power of the Federal
Government and specifically enumerating those rights that belong specifically to
the people
First Amendment - ✔✔Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and
petition the government for a redress of grievances
Second Amendment - ✔✔Right to bear arms
Third Amendment - ✔✔No soldier can be in your home without consent
Fourth Amendment - ✔✔Right against unreasonable search and seizure
Fifth Amendment - ✔✔Freedom against self-incrimination and double jeopardy
Sixth Amendment - ✔✔-Right to speedy trial by an impartial jury
-To be confronted with the witnesses against him
-Entitled to an attorney
Seventh Amendment - ✔✔right to trial by jury in civil cases
Eighth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, excessive
fines, and excessive bail
Ninth Amendment - ✔✔Listing of certain rights in the Constitution shall not be
construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people
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,Tenth Amendment - ✔✔retains the rights to the States or to the people; allows
states to add laws
Fourteenth amendment - ✔✔No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
What are the two duties of the corrections system? - ✔✔-punishment
-rehabilitation
What are the three types of law? - ✔✔-constitutional
-statutory
-administrative
What is constitutional law? - ✔✔supreme law of the land; neither congress or
state can enact a law that contradicts the Constitution
What is statutory law? - ✔✔body of law created by acts of the legislature;
subordinate to Constitutional law
What is administrative law? - ✔✔created by administrative agencies in the form
of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions to carry out regulatory powers and
duties of such agencies
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, Examples of admin law includes rules and regulations of the Georgia POST
council or GCIC
Year the Declaration of Independence was written - ✔✔1776
Year the Constitution was written - ✔✔1787
When did the Constitution go into effect? - ✔✔1789
Year the Bill of Rights were written? - ✔✔1791
What cases can Magistrate courses handle? - ✔✔-Civil claims totaling $15,000 or
less
-Criminal cases; preliminary hearings, search/arrest warrants, bail
Levels of Law - ✔✔1. Federal - overrides all laws
2. State
3. City Ordinances
**State and City can only add laws, not take away
What states are included in the 11th Circuit for Supreme Court? - ✔✔Florida,
Alabama, Georgia
What is the Oath of Honor? - ✔✔Honor, Integrity, and Respect are never
betrayed. I will always hold myself and others accountable for having the
courage to do the right thing.
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Three Components to the CJ System - ✔✔-Law Enforcement
-Courts
-Corrections
Five Stages within the CJ Process - ✔✔-Entry
-Prosecution and Pre-Trial services
-Adjudication
-Sentencing
-Corrections
Where can criminal law in the US be found in? - ✔✔-common law
-constitution
-statutes
-administration/regulatory agencies
What is the purpose of the Constitution? - ✔✔sets the boundaries within which
government is permitted to operate and applies to government officials
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,What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights? - ✔✔limit the power of the Federal
Government and specifically enumerating those rights that belong specifically to
the people
First Amendment - ✔✔Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and
petition the government for a redress of grievances
Second Amendment - ✔✔Right to bear arms
Third Amendment - ✔✔No soldier can be in your home without consent
Fourth Amendment - ✔✔Right against unreasonable search and seizure
Fifth Amendment - ✔✔Freedom against self-incrimination and double jeopardy
Sixth Amendment - ✔✔-Right to speedy trial by an impartial jury
-To be confronted with the witnesses against him
-Entitled to an attorney
Seventh Amendment - ✔✔right to trial by jury in civil cases
Eighth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, excessive
fines, and excessive bail
Ninth Amendment - ✔✔Listing of certain rights in the Constitution shall not be
construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people
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,Tenth Amendment - ✔✔retains the rights to the States or to the people; allows
states to add laws
Fourteenth amendment - ✔✔No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
What are the two duties of the corrections system? - ✔✔-punishment
-rehabilitation
What are the three types of law? - ✔✔-constitutional
-statutory
-administrative
What is constitutional law? - ✔✔supreme law of the land; neither congress or
state can enact a law that contradicts the Constitution
What is statutory law? - ✔✔body of law created by acts of the legislature;
subordinate to Constitutional law
What is administrative law? - ✔✔created by administrative agencies in the form
of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions to carry out regulatory powers and
duties of such agencies
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, Examples of admin law includes rules and regulations of the Georgia POST
council or GCIC
Year the Declaration of Independence was written - ✔✔1776
Year the Constitution was written - ✔✔1787
When did the Constitution go into effect? - ✔✔1789
Year the Bill of Rights were written? - ✔✔1791
What cases can Magistrate courses handle? - ✔✔-Civil claims totaling $15,000 or
less
-Criminal cases; preliminary hearings, search/arrest warrants, bail
Levels of Law - ✔✔1. Federal - overrides all laws
2. State
3. City Ordinances
**State and City can only add laws, not take away
What states are included in the 11th Circuit for Supreme Court? - ✔✔Florida,
Alabama, Georgia
What is the Oath of Honor? - ✔✔Honor, Integrity, and Respect are never
betrayed. I will always hold myself and others accountable for having the
courage to do the right thing.
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