During the pretrial process, prosecutors hold a great deal of power with three important decisions. What are these three important things they must decide?

What will be an ideal response?


Whether an individual who has been arrested by the police will be charged with a crime.The level of the charges to be brought against the suspect.If and when to stop the prosecution.?

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The United States Constitution contains no provisions for enforcing the protections described in the Bill of Rights

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Data presented in the Uniform Crime Reports are summary measures

a. True b. False

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A study of jurors' decisions in rape cases found that their decisions were often based on:

a. the competence of the rape defendant's lawyer. b. the reputation and social life of the rape defendant. c. the reputation and social life of the rape victim. d. the kind of neighborhood in which the rape occurred.

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An informal, community-based program to remove certain crimes from criminal courts and dispose of them by civil means is alternative dispute resolution

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