What is a clearance rate? What does it mean to say that a crime has been “cleared”? What are the different ways in which a crime can be cleared?
What will be an ideal response?
When a crime has been cleared, it has been “solved” by the police A crime can be cleared by arrest, but also by exceptional circumstances, such as when the suspect has been killed during the commission of the crime, when the suspect was not arrested but later died, or when the suspect is known but has fled U.S. jurisdiction and is likely to be unarrestable as a result. It is not necessary for an individual to be convicted of a crime for a crime to be considered cleared.
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a. Vitek v. Jones b. Ponte v. Real c. Wolff v. McDonnell d. Ruiz v. Estelle
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word