Which of the following is NOT a situation in which a case appealed from a U.S. district court can go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court?
A. when the issue under review is considered so important that it requires immediate settlement
B. when the U.S. is a litigant and the case involves a federal statute that was declared unconstitutional by a district court
C. when the ruling under appeal was decided by a special three-judge district court hearing
D. when the case originated in a state supreme court
D. when the case originated in a state supreme court
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a. a method that involves the collection and reanalysis of existing quantitative data b. a nonreactive method used to examine the content, or information and symbols, contained in written documents or other communication media c. the unobtrusive collection of data that have usually been left behind by others d. a method that uses a written questionnaire or formal interview to gather quantitative data on the backgrounds, behaviors, beliefs, or attitudes of a large number of people or agencies e. a method in which the researcher engages the natural environment of their subjects and strives for an up close, personal, and highly detailed understanding of the research subjects' culture
The continued U.S. military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Qatar __________ radical beliefs that Western countries continue to destroy Islamic culture
a. escalate b. decrease c. improve d. reduce
The framework for the acknowledgement and advancement in services offered to victims has developed from the study of ______.
a. social work b. victimology c. criminal justice d. psychology
The most likely legal question in this case is:
Donald Dexter, who is the mayor of Anytown, Yourstate has been charged with attempted embezzlement after it was alleged that he attempted to use city funds to pay for a lavish personal meal for himself and ten of his political supporters. The waiter who served the meal (who happened to be a friend of a woman running to replace Mayor Dexter) called the prosecutor’s office and informed them that when Mayor Dexter was presented with the $825 bill for the meal, he first tendered a procurement card issued by the city. However, before the waiter left the table, Dexter retrieved the procurement card and replaced it with his own credit card. Under the Yourstate statute, an attempt consists of: “(1) the intent to commit a particular crime; (2) an overt act toward the commission of that crime; and (3) the failure to complete the commission of that crime.” a. whether offering and then retrieving the procurement card constitutes an overt act within the meaning of the state attempt statute b. whether the waiter had an improper motive in reporting the incident to the prosecutor’s office c. whether Dexter’s initial offering of the procurement card was inadvertent or manifested an intent to use city funds to pay for the meal d. whether the city’s laws prohibited the use of city funds to pay for benefits to the political supporters of city officials