According to the 2008 Columbia Law Review article entitled "Judging Innocence", the leading cause of wrongful convictions was due to _____:
a. Jury nullification
b. Mistakes made by judges
c. Public defenders being unprepared.
d. Erroneous identification by eyewitnesses.
d
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Miranda warning are not necessary in cases in which three characteristics are present
1) an urgent need exists in which no other possibility abounds; 2) there is a possibility to save human life, and 3) the primary motive of the interrogator is rescue. a. True b. False
The African country that is most prominent for organized crime is:
a. South Africa b. Nigeria c. Liberia d. Ghana
After the case of Weeks v. United States, the ________ allowed federal prosecutors to use evidence obtained by state agents through unreasonable search and seizure.
A. fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine B. abandoned property exception C. silver platter doctrine D. Carroll doctrine