Explain what a Gerstein hearing is.

Name only two differences between the Gerstein hearing and the Preliminary hearing.

The police decided to run a sting operation from a budget motel downtown. They have posted sex ads on Craigslist and were flooded with so many phone calls that they had to add three more female officers to take the calls. The playbook for this sting operation was very simple and worked as planned: each john arrives and is greeted by a nice looking female; he pays the fee, and the female officer goes to the bathroom to undress while the john starts undressing as well. That’s when the officers enter the room and arrest the offender. A total of 50 johns were arrested.  A few of them decided to challenge the sting operation under the entrapment defense. Apply the subjective test or the objective test to explain why the johns will succeed/not succeed in their claim that the arrest was illegal

Choose what is correct:

Truth-in-sentencing laws across the country (largely promoted by the Federal Government) require that an inmate spend at least………of the sentence before being eligible for early release. 

Doe got the following sentences: Felony A: 6 years: Felony B: 11 years; Felony C: 25 years.  Complete A and B. For example: A:  # years; B: # years.   A. He will serve….years behind bars if the three sentences are served consecutively.   B. He will serve …..years behind bars if the three sentences are served concurrently.

In the famous case Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), the 6th Amendment’s right to effective counsel at all critical stages of prosecution was forced into all states’ constitutions and courts.  Answer these two questions:    What is effective counsel?   Name at least three (3)  critical stages where a defendant must have a defense attorney present.  

Which of the following types of probation involves the use of short-term incarceration sentence in conjunction with a traditional probation sentence?

As part of California’s efforts to reduce prison overcrowding, correctional officials have shifted the correctional supervision of lower level offenders to ______.

A ______ security-level prison is designed to house serious and violent offenders. Inmate movement and autonomy is significantly restricted, and inmates are often a risk to themselves, other inmates, and staff.