CJ 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chief Judge, Preliminary Hearing, Due Process
10 Jan 2017
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Hulk hogans 17 year old son was accused of reckless driving, which caused his passenger brain damage and paralysis. After weeks of investigation he was arrested, turned self in, was processed and parent paid 10,000 bail ultimately pled (cid:374)olo, re(cid:272)"d 8 (cid:373)os sentence served in county jail. Compare psychic accused of defrauding people out of money i another state. Arrested, bail set at 100,000, 10% but (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t afford it, sat i(cid:374) jail for (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths a(cid:449)aiti(cid:374)g trial. 1 state courts handle most legal matters, majority of crime state courts interp own stats and constit; Us s ct oversees both courts in issues under us const. States have court of limited juris; general juris; intermediate; court of last resort; names vary state to state. Federal: district court of appeals; us s court. *state cases to us supreme court only on constitutional issues. Most state court systems are under local, e. g. county control; only few states have statewide org.
