The ______ allows federal prosecutors to grant lower-level members of organized crime groups immunity from prosecution for their own crimes in exchange for testimony incriminating higher-level members.

a. Witness Immunity Provision
b. Witness Protection Program
c. Organized Crime Control Act
d. RICO statute


a. Witness Immunity Provision

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Almost a century of criminal investigations, public hearings, and studies by presidential commissions have produced conflicting information regarding the existence of the Italian American group known as the __________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The governor selecting and having legislature approve judges is referred to as ______.

A. partisan election B. nonpartisan election C. merit selection D. appointment

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During the first Red Scare in 1919, the perceived threat emanated from which of the following?

a. Anarchist and communist terrorism and subversion. b. Fascist and Nazi terrorism and subversion. c. Both “a” and “b”. d. Neither “a” nor “b”.

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Prior to the U.S. Supreme Court cases of Camara v. Municipal Court and See v. City of Seattle decided in 1967, administrative searches were _____

a. not considered to be true searches b. not subject to review by appellate courts c. subject to the warrant requirement d. not subject to the warrant requirement

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