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Courts (Parts of a Court System (Prosecutor: Local, State Attorney…
Courts
Parts of a Court System
Prosecutor: Local, State Attorney Generals, and US Attorneys
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Assigned: willing to take on indigent defenses and be paid by the courts
Contract: Firms groups of lawyers who are given the contract for the indigent court cases
Public Defender: the government makes an entity of public defenders to handle the public defender cases
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Negotiator: Mediator of the court, attempting to gain the middle ground
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Partisan Election, Nonpartisan Election, and Merit Selection
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Federal vs. State
State holds civil suits, greater case loads, and cannot litigate state law in a federal court
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Police on the state, federal, local, and special jurisdiction work among both courts
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Prosecutor Functions:Trial counsel for police, house counsel for the police, and representatives of the court, and elected officials
Use of discretion: Charges to be filed, sentencing an offender, and plea of the accused
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- The police and courts work alongside each other in an order to convict law breaking citizens and prevent further crime through deterrence, rehabilitation, and punishment