List the steps in processing a typical felony case. Briefly describe what happens at each step.

What will be an ideal response?


Crime, arrest, initial appearance, bail, preliminary hearing, prosecutors' charging decision, grand jury review and indictment, arraignment on charges, pretrial discovery and suppression of evidence, plea negotiation, trial, sentencing, appeal.

Criminal Justice

You might also like to view...

______ is defined as an unauthorized access to programs and databases and unlawfully obtaining information through deceit and trickery.

a. Identity theft b. Computer theft c. Computer crime d. Identity crime

Criminal Justice

Which of the following was identified as a tactic expected of a transnational organized crime group?

a. advertising their activities on local media b. bank and credit card fraud c. violence and bribery d. kidnapping and extortion

Criminal Justice

Under English common law, kidnapping was recognized as ________

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Criminal Justice

Stress to police officers induced from delivering death messages to citizens falls under which category of stress?

A) organizational and administrative practices B) the criminal justice system C) the public D) stress intrinsic to police work itself

Criminal Justice