Author Question: A steals B's car. The police find A with B's car, but the car has been mostly disassembled and sold. ... (Read 45 times)

LCritchfi · **on:** Jul 12, 2018

A steals B's car. The police find A with B's car, but the car has been mostly disassembled and sold. At his arraignment, A pleads nolo contendere. The nolo contendere plea will

a. give B a summary judgment in a civil suit based on A's converting the car to his own use.
b. permit the court to convict the defendant without the defendant having to plead guilty.
c. shift to the prosecution the burden of proving the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
d. None of the above is true.

Question 2

The number of actual crimes in the U.S.:

A. is shown by victimization surveys to be more than twice the rate of reported crimes
B. has not really increased over the years
C. is overstated by the Uniform Crime Reports
D. is accurately reflected by the Uniform Crime Reports