Since the 1980s, sentencing guidelines have been established in the federal courts and in nearly two dozen state court systems

a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false


True

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The National Crime Information Center fingerprint classification system has:

A) A twenty digit code B) A sixteen digit code C) A ten digit code D) An eight digit code

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___________ transfer mandates that a juvenile is transferred, as a matter of state law, to adult jurisdiction.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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The Supreme Court observed that there are “well-recognized categories of speech which may be permissibly limited under the First Amendment” in which of the following cases?

a. Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire b. West Virginia v. Barnette c. New York v. Ferber d. R.A.V. v. St. Paul

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Medical negligence has consistently been viewed as foreseeable and does NOT break the chain of causation. 2. A specific intent is a mental determination to accomplish a specific result. 3. Pollution is an example of a public welfare crime. 4. Chronological concurrence means that a criminal intent must exist at the same time as a criminal act

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