Which of the following statements concerning the federal Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is INCORRECT?
a. To accomplish the stated purpose of the new Act, the United States Sentencing Commission was created to promulgate sentencing guidelines.
b. The sentencing guidelines reduce the discretion of federal judges in imposing sentences.
c. A sentencing judge may depart from the prescribed guidelines sentence based on defendant's education, sex, family and community ties, and employment history.
d. Sentences prescribed by the new federal guidelines are not absolute.
C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Police obtained some human bones that a private contractor found in a farmer's manure pile that the contractor had been hired to spread over the farm field
The defendant had been purchasing the farm field from another farmer, but at some point had abandoned the farm field containing the manure pile. The contractor called the police about the bones. An officer observed the bone site, but obtained a search warrant before removing the evidence. The bones turned out to be the jaw bone of the farmer's missing wife and he was convicted of her murder. On appeal, the defendant contended that his Fourth Amendment rights had been violated by the police entry on his farm field. On these facts, the bone evidence A) must be excluded from use against the farmer at his murder trial because the police officer did not obtain a warrant before entering the framer's land. B) must be excluded from evidence because the police violated the farmer's Fourth Amendment rights when the officer entered the farmer's field the first time without any warrant whatsoever. C) should be admissible against the farmer if he had abandoned the farm field that he was earlier trying to purchase because he would not have any expectation of privacy in an abandoned farm field. D) should be admissible against the farmer because the bones were found under the open fields doctrine. E) either the theory under answer C or the theory under answer D should permit the admission of the bone evidence against the farmer-defendant.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1) Operational analysis subject areas include the analysis of space, time, offender, victim, and modus operandi for individual high-profile crimes, repeat incidents, and crime patterns, with a specific focus on crime series. 2) An example of strategic crime analysis would be the analysis of data on the implementation of bright LED lights at every intersection in a specific high crime area. 3) CompStat is NOT considered a type of analysis. 4) Crime intelligence analysis is NOT considered a type of analysis 5) Examining calls for service and unit history data to conduct workload calculations by area and shift is a processed used in administrative crime analysis
Transferability occurs when working hypotheses can be transferred from one _______________ to another
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