What is a Due Process?
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A right guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and generally understood, in legal contexts, to mean the due course of legal proceedings according to the rules and forms established for the protection of individual rights. In criminal proceedings, due process of law is generally understood to include the following basic elements: a law creating and defining the offense, an impartial tribunal having jurisdictional authority over the case, accusation in proper form, notice and opportunity to defend, trial according to established procedure, and discharge from all restraints or obligations unless convicted.
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a. True b. False
In Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts (2009), the Supreme Court ruled that a scientific report prepared for the prosecution
A. Must be given to the defendant under the Due Process Clause B. Is admissible only if a testable sample of the material on which the report is based is made available to the defendant C. Is admissible under the science report hearsay exception D. Is subject to cross-examination at trial
Refer the above figure. Stage "4" of the economy is called
A) a spreading out. B) a maturity. C) an expansion. D) a development.
The primary theoretical perspective used to explain the fact that victims and offenders who are intimately known to each other are disproportionately represented in homicide statistics is
a. The general theory of crime.
b. The subculture of violence thesis.
c. Selective disinhibition.
d. The critical criminological perspective.