The Court used North Carolina v. ________ as an example of how, with the right amount of pressure and intimidation, authorities can coerce certain suspects to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit. In this case the defendant was threatened to plead guilty or he would be "gassed."

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


Alford

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What will be an ideal response?

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Although the courts have said that a police officer’s detention of a person based on the officer’s reasonable suspicion must be brief, courts have not set precise limits, rather, they have said that the time span of the detention must be evaluated

based on the _____________. Fill in the blank(s) with correct word.

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The national population of juvenile inmates increased between 2008 and 2010

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Normally, law enforcement is able to process the crime scene _____

a. Once b. Twice c. Three times d. Four times

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