1. Automobile tire tracks found at the scene of a crime constitute an important link in the chain of physical evidence. In many cases, these are the only clues available. In some areas, unpaved ground adjoins the highway or paved streets. A suspect will often park his or her car off the paved portion of the street when committing a crime, sometimes leaving excellent tire tracks. Comparison of the tire track impressions with the tires is possible only when the vehicle has been found. However, the initial problem facing the police is the task of determining what kind of car probably made the impressions found at the scene of the crime. If the make, model, and year of the car that made the impressions can be determined, it is obvious that the task of elimination is greatly lessened.
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2. If the second or third felony is such that, upon a first conviction, the offender would be punishable by imprisonment for any term less than his or her natural life, then such person must be sentenced to imprisonment for an indeterminate term, the minimum of which shall be not less than one-half of the longest term prescribed upon a first conviction, and the maximum of which shall be not longer than twice such longest term; provided, however, that the minimum sentence imposed hereunder upon such second or third felony offender shall in no case be less than five years; except that where the maximum punishment for a second or third felony offender hereunder is five years or less, the minimum sentence must be not less than two years.
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3. After examining a document and comparing the characters with specimens of other handwritings, the laboratory technician may conclude that a certain individual definitely did write the questioned document. This opinion could be based on a large number of similar, as well as a small number of dissimilar but explainable, characteristics. On the other hand, if the laboratory technician concludes that the person in question did not write the questioned document, such an opinion could be based on the large number of characteristics that are dissimilar or even on a small number that are dissimilar provided that these are of overriding significance and despite the presence of explainable similarities. The laboratory expert is not always able to give a positive opinion. He may state that a certain individual probably did or did not write the questioned document. Such an opinion is usually the result of insufficient material, either in the questioned document or in the specimens submitted for comparison. Finally, the expert may be unable to come to any conclusion at all because of insufficient material submitted for comparison or because of improper specimens.
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4. Occasionally one encounters a rigid, protectionist division chief in a government agency who wishes to restrict promotions to supervisory positions in his division exclusively to employees in his division. Such a division chief may develop staunch loyalties among his employees, but critics outside his agency are likely to describe his attitude as being as provincial as an isolationist country's unwillingness to engage in any international trade whatever on the ground that it will be required to buy something from outsiders that could possibly be produced by local talent, even though not as well and not as cheaply.
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5. Many kinds of computer programming languages have been developed over the years. Initially, programmers had to write instructions in machine language. If a computer programming language is a machine language, then it is a code that can be read directly by a computer. Most high-level computer programming languages, such as Fortran and Cobol, use strings of common English phrases that communicate with the computer only after being converted or translated into a machine code.
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6. German scientists synthesized methadone during World War II because of a shortage of morphine. Although chemically unlike morphine or heroin, it produces many of the same effects. Introduced into the United States in 1947 as an analgesic and distributed under such brand names as Amidone, Dolophine, and Methadone, it became widely used in the 1960s in the treatment of narcotic addicts. The effects of methadone differ from morphine-based drugs in that they have a longer duration of action, lasting up to 24 hours, thereby permitting administration only once a day in heroin detoxification and maintenance programs. Moreover, methadone is almost as effective when administered orally as it is by injection. But tolerance and dependence may develop, and withdrawal symptoms, though they develop more slowly and are less severe, are more prolonged. Ironically, methadone, designed to control narcotic addiction, has emerged in some metropolitan areas as a major cause of overdose deaths.
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7. An important function of IRS Special Agents involves investigations of organized crime activities. Under federal law, income from illegal sources such as bootlegging, prostitution, and narcotics sales is subject to tax. Such income is used by members of organized crime to support other illegal activities or to infiltrate legitimate businesses. As a result of IRS investigations, many crime figures have been prosecuted and convicted of tax evasion, resulting in substantial blows to the financial resources of criminal groups. As part of this effort, the Internal Revenue Service participates in the Federal Organized Crime Strike Force Program and works on a cooperating basis with other law enforcement agencies at all levels of government.
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8. A person who intends to effect or facilitate the escape of a prisoner, whether the escape is effected or attempted or not, and who enters a prison, or conveys to a prisoner any information, or sends into a prison any disguise, instrument, weapon, or other thing, is guilty of felony if the prisoner is held upon a charge, arrest, commitment, or conviction for a felony. The person is guilty of a misdemeanor if the prisoner is held upon a charge, arrest, commitment, or conviction of a misdemeanor.
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9. In its 1964 decision in the case of The New York Times v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court said that notwithstanding the press was inaccurate, even negligent, and the inaccuracy substantially damaged a public figure, there would be no liability on the part of the press. Only if the press were guilty of actual malice—that is a deliberate falsification or conduct that evinced a reckless disregard—could there be a recovery.
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10. Personnel administration begins with the process of defining the quantities of people needed to do the job. Thereafter, people must be recruited, selected, trained, directed, rewarded, transferred, promoted, and perhaps released or retired. However, it is not true that all organizations are structured so that workers can be dealt with as individuals. In some organizations, employees are represented by unions, and managers bargain directly only with these associations.
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11. The Supreme Court's power to invalidate legislation that violates the Constitution is a strong restriction on the powers of Congress. If an Act of Congress is deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, then the Act is voided. Unlike a presidential veto, which can be overridden by a two-thirds vote of the House and the Senate, a constitutional ruling by the Supreme Court must be accepted by the Congress.
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12. Revolutions have tended to result in authoritarian regimes. In fact, in European history since 1789, the more involved the people became in a change of governments, the more likely the new government was to be an authoritarian one, oppressive and dismissive of human and civil rights. When the change in government was controlled by the middle class, a relatively peaceful coup d'état took place and a regime no more authoritarian than the one before it came into power. However, when the masses rioted and staged a violent revolution, the new government ended up being extremely authoritarian.
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13. All child-welfare agencies are organizations that seek to promote the healthy growth and development of children. Supplying or supplementing family income so that parents can maintain a home for their children is usually the first such service to be provided. In addition to programs of general family relief, some special programs for broken families are offered when parental care is temporarily or permanently unavailable.
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14. The commonsense character of the merit system seems so natural to most Americans that many people wonder why it should ever have been inoperative. After all, the American economic system, the most phenomenal the world has ever known, is also founded on a rugged selective process that emphasizes the personal qualities of capacity, industriousness, and productivity. The criteria may not have always been appropriate and competition has not always been fair, but competition there was, and the responsibilities and the rewards—with exceptions, of course—have gone to those who could measure up in terms of intelligence, knowledge, or perseverance. This has been true not only in the economic area, in the moneymaking process, but also in achievement in the professions and other walks of life.
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15. All property is classified as either personal or real property, but not both. In general, if something is classified as personal property, it is transient and transportable in nature, while real property is not. Things such as leaseholds, animals, money, and intangible and other movable goods are examples of personal property. Permanent buildings and land, on the other hand, are fixed in nature and are not transportable.
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16. The popular view of war is that war is uncontrolled violence and barbarism, near the bottom in the annals of man's inhumanity to man. Actually, war is a political act, usually undertaken only when it appears that all other alternatives have failed. The laws of war are those portions of international law that deal with the inception of war, the conduct of war, and the cessation of war. They regulate the relations between states at war and the relationships of those states that claim to be neutral powers. The laws of war apply whether the war is declared or undeclared.
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17. The purpose of elections in which both candidates have the same ideological outlook is threefold. First, elections give the people a chance to pick the candidate who is the most technically qualified and politically astute. Second, elections insure that legislators keep in touch with their constituencies. Finally, competitive elections prevent the establishment of a firmly entrenched party elite who would develop their own interests and not remain accountable to the people. Thus, elections tend to clamp down on corruption by party and government officials.
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19. The success or failure of a criminal prosecution usually depends upon the evidence presented to the court. Evidence may be divided into three major classifications: direct evidence, circumstantial evidence, and real evidence. Evidence must also be admissible, that is, material and relevant. An eyewitness account of a criminal act is direct evidence. Where an eyewitness does not have immediate experience, but reasonably infers what happened, circumstantial evidence is offered. Real evidence comprises objects introduced at a trial to prove or disprove a fact. For example, a gun, fingerprints, or bloodstains are real evidence. Real evidence may be direct or circumstantial. Evidence is immaterial if it is unimportant to the trial. For example, if someone is being tried for larceny of a crate of oranges, it is immaterial that the oranges were yellow in color. Evidence is irrelevant or immaterial if it does not prove the truth of a fact at issue. For example, if a murder had been committed with a bow and arrow, it is irrelevant to show that the defendant was well-acquainted with firearms.
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