Describe each of the three classes of fingerprints. Which class is the most common in the population? Which is least common?
What will be an ideal response?
The three classes of fingerprints are loops, whorls, and arches. Loops are characterized by ridge lines that enter from one side of the pattern and curve around to exit from the same side of the pattern. Whorls include ridge patterns that are generally rounded or circular in shape and have two deltas. Arches are characterized by ridge lines that enter the print from one side and flow out the other side. Loops are most common; arches are least common.
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defendants who killed white victims were significantly more likely to receive death sentences than any other racial combination of defendant and victim, such as white/white victim/defendant, black/black victim/defendant, white defendant/black victim. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to cite the Baldus study as fact, but the study has been cited many times in defendants' challenges to the imposition of the death penalty. Based on your experiences and your study of criminal justice issues to date, do you agree with defendant McCleskey that the Court should have recognized the "fact" of racial discrimination in death-penalty sentencing, or do you agree with the Court that race discrimination, while it sometimes matters in the criminal justice context, is not enough to overturn a lawfully imposed death sentence? Explain your reasoning. What will be an ideal response?
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those who are unable to afford one was made law by the Supreme Court in 1963; in what year was the law expanded to include any crime, felony, or misdemeanor for which jail/prison time was an option? A) ?1966 B) ?1973 C) ?1980 D) ?1991 E) ?2001