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A drug diversion program is a type of “court” that offers nonviolent drug offender the opportunity to resolve their cases outside of the traditional criminal justice system.

Revocation occurs when a probationer violates the conditions of their probation

The burden of proof or beyond a reasonable doubt is what the jury seeks to find in a criminal trial.  

South Carolina has enacted the firing squad as part of its death sentence if an inmate wishes to be executed in this manner.

In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination.

The goal of the prosecution is to obtain probable cause of a crime.  

The use of criminal intelligence to assist in crime detection, investigation, suspect identification is known as COMPSTAT?

cui bono means “who benefits

Genocide is the killing of people because of their race, religion, sex, or national group within a specific country?

Supreme Court case allows for suspects to confer with an attorney as soon as the focus of the police investigation of the suspect shifts from investigatory to accusatory.