Which individual automatically lacks the mens rea to commit a crime?
a. a male with schizophrenia
b. a postpartum mother
c. a five-year-old child
d. a person who is heavily medicated
c. a five-year-old child
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The tendency to perceive hostile intent in others even when it is totally lacking is called
A) hostile preference. B) Meckel's syndrome. C) hostile attribution bias. D) inductive bias.
The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that probable cause is a matter of “_____.”
A) certainties B) hard evidence C) intuition D) probabilities
The ABA suggests that in deciding whether to bring charges, criteria to be considered should include:
a. The harm caused by the offense b. The possibility of improper motives for a complaint c. The reluctance of the victim to testify d. All of the above
A U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a plan to subtract the names of white prospective jurors until the proportion of racial minorities in the pool matches the proportion in the population violated the equal protection rights of white jurors in Purkett v. Elem (1995)
a. True b. False