After the changing of federal law in 2010, sentences for crack versus powder cocaine was reduced from 100 to 1 to:

A. 10 to 1
B. 18 to 1
C. 50 to 1
D. 55 to 1


B. 18 to 1

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An important fact in Illinois v. Gates (1983 ) was that the secret informant was _________________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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A civil/administrative violation:

a. Expose offenders to imprisonment. b. Is resolved by an investigator imposing penalties. c. Is adjudicated in either a state/federal court or administrative agency judicial forum. d. Is found only in the federal code.

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S.A.R.A. provides officers with a step-by-step framework to crime, fear of crime, and neighborhood disorder

a. identify b. analyze c. respond to d. evaluate e. all of the above.

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In a drunken rage, a man killed his wife and buried her in the backyard. He turned himself into the police and admitted that he killed her, and prior to being Mirandized, he revealed the location of her body. The defense argued that the evidence about the body was inadmissible because that information was obtained illegally. However, the prosecutor successfully argued that it should be admitted, because police would have discovered the freshly dug grave in the backyard without the confession. The judge allowed the evidence by citing the ______ rule.

A. exclusionary B. inevitable discovery C. fruit of the poisonous tree D. good-faith exception

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