______ involves the compulsion of another to participate in a sexual act without consent, or through threat or coercion, or by placing another person in fear of imminent bodily injury.
a. Acquaintance rape
b. Second-degree rape
c. First-degree rape
d. Purposeful rape
b. Second-degree rape
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An informal hearing place designed to mediate interpersonal disputes without resorting to the more formal arrangements of a criminal trial court is called a:
a. Trial de novo. b. Community court. c. Court of last resort. d. Dispute resolution center.
The only other court or legislative body that can overrule a Supreme Court decision is:
a. another federal court having original jurisdiction. b. Congress, with a three-fourths vote in the House and a two-thirds vote in the Senate. c. no other body may overrule the U.S. Supreme Court. d. the lower court to which the case was remanded.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The totality of circumstances has been modified in prison law to consist of the totality of the conditions, to determine if conditions in an institution are in violation of the Eighth Amendment. 2. Slander is verbal communication intended to lower the reputation of a person where such facts would actually be damaging to a reputation. 3. In the case of Hobbs v. New York, the court found that inmates are entitled to due process in involuntary transfers from prison to a mental hospital. 4. An injunction is a court order that requires an agency to take some form of action(s) or to refrain from a particular action(s). 5. Punitive damages are payments for the actual losses suffered by a plaintiff.
State and federal jurisdictions have experimented with a number of techniques for increasing the racial __________ of the jury pool
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word