The _____________ is empowered to negotiate a guilty plea with the defendant, thereby ending the formal trial process. This is termed "plea bargaining."
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
prosecutor
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After the prosecutor and defense attorney have completed their closing arguments, the judge instructs the jury on the law applicable to the case, and this process is referred to as jury instructions
a. True b. False
Imagine you have experienced the circumstances listed below. Once you’ve finished dealing with the situation, you would like to purchase a gun (or have your confiscated gun returned). In which of the circumstances below would you be able to buy and/or own a gun?
A. If you live in a state where a domestic violence conviction means you no longer have the right to get a gun. B. If you are involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. C. If you are a well-known advocate for gun rights, but during an unrelated court case, you were declared mentally ill or incompetent by the court. D. If you had your gun confiscated during a contentious traffic stop, but are now out of jail and have asked to have your property returned.
Race is an example of an achieved characteristic
a. True b. False
Read the following facts regarding United States v. Sokolow (1989): Sokolow, appeared to be suspicious to police because while traveling under an alias from Honolulu, he paid $2,100 in $20 bills (taken from a larger sum of money) for a round-trip airline ticket to Miami. He spent a very short period of time in Miami. Sokolow was noticeably nervous and had checked no luggage. A warrantless airport investigation by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents revealed more than 1,000 grams of cocaine on the defendant. Based on the facts above, how did the U.S. Supreme Court rule?
A) The Court ruled that according to a "totality of the circumstances" criterion, in which the defendant's entire behavior is taken collectively to provide the basis for a legitimate stop, the evidence was admissible.
B) Upon appeal, the Court ruled that no single activity was proof of illegal activity, and as such, the evidence was inadmissible.
C) The court ruled that the stop was legal because the actions taken together created circumstances under which suspicion of illegal activity but that the search was illegal under the exclusionary rule.
D) The court ruled that the stop and the search were illegal under the Fourth Amendment and as such, all evidence should have been excluded from trial.