A ______ sentence is one in which the actual number of years a person may serve is not fixed but is rather a range of years.
a. split
b. determinate
c. indeterminate
d. mandatory
c. indeterminate
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Moore’s study of gangs in Los Angeles implies the activities of female gang members ______.
A. became more similar to the activities of male gang members over time B. became less like the activities of male gang members over time C. have not changed over time D. were unknown to researchers prior to the early 1990s
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The primary, overall job of the prosecutor’s office is to represent the government in criminal cases. 2. In the federal court system, the government is represented by the United States Attorney. 3. One common role of state prosecutors is to work to legally enforce child support and child protection programs. 4. In most cases, the lead police investigator of a case interviews witnesses before trial. 5. Prosecutors work under a great deal of judicial oversight.
What if a suspect indicates that he wants to make a statement while he's in jail and wants to talk to a lawyer and officers wait for three days before notifying counsel. In the meantime, the suspect has confessed
How would you rule on the admissibility of that confession? What will be an ideal response?
U.S. practice on seems to have begun with the efforts of the CIA to kill Fidel Castro and continued into the Vietnam War with plots to assassinate the president of South Vietnam and with the Phoenix Program, designed to kill Vietcong leaders.
a. Warfare b. Anti-terrorism c. Justifiable warfare d. Targeted assassinations