In the current era, the Justice Department has increasingly used deferred prosecution agreements with corporate offenders. Which of the following is not true about these agreements?
a. Corporations may accept large fines
b. Corporations may accept outside monitoring of their activities
c. Prosecutors agree not to pursue criminal indictments against the corporations
d. These agreements have not been employed in conventional crime cases
D
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The Supreme Court in the case of Faretta v. California (1975) held that ______.
a. states that legal representation should not be denied to those who are unable to afford legal services b. adopts flexibility by allowing a lawyer to not be obliged to accept a client whose character or cause the lawyer regards as repugnant c. allows a lawyer to withdraw representation if the client insists upon pursuing objectives the lawyer finds repugnant or prudent d. even in a serious criminal case, a defendant cannot be forced to be represented by counsel
Proponents of the death penalty say it is unlikely an innocent person would be executed. Discuss the evidence from the Innocence Network and biases that still exist in the criminal justice system. Do you find this evidence convincing?
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The most notable difference between early juries and the ones used today is that:
a. modern juries are larger. b. today jurors are excluded if they have any knowledge of the case. c. the earliest form of juries used jurors who already had personal knowledge of the case. d. the earliest juries in England were composed of people who spent their careers as professional jurors.