Decisions by a higher court or not binding on lower courts
a. true
b. false
False. When a decision is made by a higher court, the lower courts must follow it.
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Individuals under the age of 18 cannot be executed. 2. White-collar crime is committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation. 3. Euthanasia is a victimless crime. 4. Gambling is a game of chance, between friends. 5. Health fraud falls under white-collar crime.
Define and explain the major types of non-probability sampling.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following reasons explains, in part, why leaders in the developing world often do not denounce what the West considers to be terrorism?
a. What the West considers to be terrorism was used during many insurgencies as a legitimate tactic. b. Such leaders are cold-hearted dictators. c. It is not immoral behavior in some cultures. d. It is an honorable practice in some cultures.
According to the SCOTUS opinion in Terry v. Ohio (1968), which of the following is permissible in a police stop and frisk of a citizen on a street to investigate a possible robbery?
a. In dealing with dangerous situations on city streets, police need an escalating set of flexible responses. b. Police cannot stop citizens without probable cause that crime is afoot c. In any instance where the police can stop a person, they can also frisk the person. d. Police cannot stop citizens without clear and convincing evidence that crime is afoot.