CCJ 101 Lecture Notes - Exculpatory Evidence, Hung Jury, Trial
Document Summary
Ccj chapter 8: the prosecution, defense, and pretrial activities. Actors and procedures in the courtroom: advocacy model: defendant and government are represented by advocates acting on their behalf, adversarial system: a quality of the u. s. justice system in which prosecutors and defendants compete to reveal the truth. The prosecutor: prosecutor: represents the government or the people federal prosecutors. U. s. attorney general: chief law enforcement officer in the government, head of the department of justice. U. s. attorneys: responsible for trying cases at the federal court level. Also appointed by president, supervised by ag. Special prosecutors may be appointed to investigate an official"s wrongdoing. Investigation of russian interference in the 2016 presidential election: state and local prosecutors. Prosecutors" discretion encompasses who is charged and with what, whether to offer plea bargain, when or whether to drop charges, refiling charges (mistrial or hung jury) Exculpatory evidence: evidence which clears some or all guilt during criminal proceedings.
