Author Question: Which of the following legal strategies tends to ensure fairness and evenhandedness in sentencing of ... (Read 138 times)

CharlieWard · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Which of the following legal strategies tends to ensure fairness and evenhandedness in sentencing of defendants accused of killing white victims?

a. Prosecutorial discretion in the selective prosecution of capital cases.
b. Prosecutorial misuse of peremptory challenges that systematically exclude people of color from juries involving capital defendants from communities of color.
c. Judicial override by white trial judges in capital cases with defendants of color.
d. Effective assistance by highly trained defense counsel.

Question 2

Society's definition and stigmatization of deviance are often arbitrary and ambiguous.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false