How do the Mississippi and South Dakota laws differ?
What will be an ideal response?
Under Mississippi law, the emphasis is on removing the drunken person from a public place.
The South Dakota law, on the other hand, focuses on the harm a drunker person could cause to
others and how to prevent the person from causing herself/himself harm.
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Which of the following is NOT an instance wherein a police officer can record a conversation without a warrant?
A) When law enforcement officials have a victim contact an offender via telephone and have the victim attempt to illicit incriminating statements B) While offenders are handcuffed in the back seat of a police vehicle C) Surreptitiously recorded conversations during a routine traffic stop D) none of the above
Returning home from a barbecue at 3 a.m.inrural Philo, Illinois, twenty-four-year-old Katie Daly skiddedonwet gravel and lost control of the all-terrain vehicle she was driving. Her nineteen-year-old cousin, Annie Daly, was thrown from the passenger seat and diedina hospital four hours later. At the time of the accident, Katie's blood alcohol level was well over the state's legal limit, and she was charged with felony aggravated driving under the influence (DUI). Given her family connection to the victim, local prosecutors agreed to a plea deal in which Katie would be spared prison, instead receiving a punishment of probation for her crime. Champaign County judge Richard Klaus rejected the plea bargain and sentenced Katie to three and half years in prison. The defense attorney appealed
the decision, and in December 2014, an Illinois appellate court agreed, ruling that Klaus had abused his discretion by putting the defendant behind bars and sentenced Katie to probation. Illinois uses an indeterminate sentencing model. If convicted to a prison sentence, Katie will not be eligible for what type of sanction? A. Probation B. Parole C. Shock incarceration D. All of the above
__________ is NOT a reason crime victims choose to report a crime.
a. To protect others b. To stop the offender c. To prevent future violence d. Fear of reprisal
Donald informs the incoming prisoners that there are opportunities to improve themselves in prison if they want to. He tells them how he obtained a bachelor's degree while in prison in 1968 . Today, many inmates in Donald's prison desire to get their college degree as well. However, the prison no longer offers this opportunity for inmates. What is the primary reason that college prison programs
have been cut? a. Prisoners lack the prerequisite skills to enter college. b. Prison systems believe that prisoners do not need the frills of postsecondary schooling. c. College professors do not want to participate in college programs at prisons. d. None of these