Which is applicable when a defendant's voluntary act after illegal police conduct breaks the causal chain between the police misconduct and the evidence?
a. Independent source
b. Good faith
c. Inevitable discovery
d. Purged or dissipated taint
d
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A conviction will be overturned if one prosecutor authorized payment to a cooperating witness and the trial prosecutor, unaware of this, did not disclose this fact to a defense attorney who requested the discovery of material evidence
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The Justice whose decisions in constitutional criminal procedure changed the greatest from the beginning to the end of his career was
A. Blackmun B. Brennan C. Powell D. White
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.Most federal inmates have been sentenced for drug offenses. 2.Federal prison camps are sometimes referred to as “Club Fed.” 3.Most state facilities are on a permanent state of lockdown, whereby a prisoner can leave his cell only if accompanied by a corrections officer or other prison employee. 4.Three strikes legislation is a form of indeterminate sentencing. 5.Alcatraz was eventually shut down in 1963 because of prison riots.
A peacemaking perspective suggests that all of us have a responsibility to the offender
a. true b. false