Because the payment to court-appointed counsel or public defenders is very low, discuss the quality of counsel often available to indigent defendants. What type of lawyer engages in court-appointed defense work?
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Payment to court-appointed counsel is dramatically lower than payment to privately-retained attorneys. In many instances, payments to court-appointed counsel are capped at a specific dollar amount despite the amount of work that a given attorney may put into a case. This type of work often attracts lawyers who either firmly believe in the Constitutional rights of all defendants, no matter the crime alleged, or, more often, lawyers who cannot succeed in private practice and/or those who many not have been at the top of their class in law school.
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Impressions of the unique pattern of ridges on the fingertip that are left behind on objects are called:
A. latent fingerprints. B. latent impressions. C. residual fingerprints. D. tell-tale signs. E. CSI techniques.
What limited ability of very young offenders is taken into consideration when assessing their legal culpability?
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Currently there are approximately how many confirmed member of OMG's according to the text?
a. 10,000 b. 15,000 c. 20,000 d. 25,000