What is hearsay?
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Hearsay is a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted. It was designed to safeguard the rights of citizens from issues addressed in the confrontation clause in the Sixth Amendment. Hearsay can be assertion-centered and declarant-centered.
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Biosocial criminologists dismiss the nature versus nurture argument in favor of the approach of nature via nurture. 2. According to biosocial criminologists, behavior is always the result of biological factors interacting with environmental factors. 3. Modern day behavior geneticists are searching for the gene that causes criminal behavior. 4. On the scale used by behavior geneticists to quantify the relative impact of genes versus environment, the closer the score to 1.0, the less variance there is for that trait in the population. 5. Genetic effects on antisocial behavior are most likely to be found among those who begin offending in their early teenage years, and desist by their mid-twenties.
In a positive relationship, higher values of X tend to go with higher values of Y
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According to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, when can multiple charges be brought against the same individual?
a. When the charges arise from the same criminal event b. When two separate criminal acts are tied together in some fashion c. When two criminal acts are "the same or similar in character" d. All of the above