The scope of a prosecutor's discretion continues to expand as the adoption of mandatory minimum sentence laws and truth-in-sentencing laws reduce a judge's flexibility in sentencing choices
a. True
b.False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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A) Vector Data and Feature Data B) Feature Data and Demographic Data C) Raster Data and Feature Data D) Vector Data and Raster Data
The Supreme Court has held that municipalities can be held liable under Section 1983 for failure to ____ their police officers
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
In a phenomenon referred to as the “intellectual imbalance,” it has been found that offenders tend to score lower than the overall population on the ______ intelligence subscale, but not on the ______ intelligence subscale.
a. performance; verbal b. verbal; performance c. none of these; this term is used to refer to the disparity between offenders and nonoffenders on the full-scale IQ test. d. none of these; no IQ difference has been found between offenders and nonoffenders.
Bob decides to kill Ray. He takes a loaded gun and goes to Ray's house. He sees Ray sitting on the porch and takes a shot at him. What Bob did not know was that Ray died of a heart attack, there on his porch, a half-hour before Bob arrived
If Bob is charged with attempted homicide, he might claim the defense of ________. A) renunciation B) impossibility C) strict liability D) abandonment