Compare the contract and convict leasing system.
What will be an ideal response?
Example should explain that in both systems the convicts worked to develop skills, but the money was applied toward the facility and not used to enrich the offender. In the contract system, inmate labor was sold on a fixed price per day. In the convict leasing system, the inmate control was leased on an annual basis and the state forfeited supervision and control.
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a. liberation b. employment c. imprisonment d. stigmatization
A failure of proof defensealwaysresults in the defendant's acquittal
a. True b. False
Explain the role of a judge in plea agreements.
What will be an ideal response?
In California v. Ciraolo (1986), a case involving the police using a plane to fly 1000 feet over Ciraolo's yard to see if he was growing marijuana, the Supreme Court ruled: a. the plane enhanced the police officer's natural vision and, therefore, the Fourth Amendment was implicatedand the officers should be held to the probable cause and warrant requirements
b. the plane enhanced the officer's vision but they had probable cause based on other evidence. c. the plane didn't enhance the officer's vision, therefore it was a plain view search outside the purview of theFourth Amendment. d. the Fourth Amendment restricts officers from using airplanes to search for drugs.