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Prosecutors are ethically bound to be impartial and they therefore have no motivation to seek a conviction at trial.

All states and their officials are bound by the United States Constitution.

Which of the following is not required to prove a discriminatory prosecution in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment?

The legal victim in criminal cases is:

Judges, like prosecutors, are part of the executive branch of government.

The legal systems of all fifty states are based on the English common law.

Consent is a defense to the offense of:

A defendant’s claim that he or she was not present at the scene of the crime when the crime was committed is the factual defense of:

Ordinarily, a person who is found “not guilty by reason of insanity” is committed to a mental institution until he or she is no longer dangerous.

The question of the defendant’s sanity at the time of trial is determined by the same test as the insanity defense.