With Respect to Bail and Pretrial Detention

question 64

Multiple Choice

With respect to bail and pretrial detention:
I. most defendants are not detained until trial.
II. detention can last for considerable periods.
III. pretrial detention is one of the factors contributing significantly to the jail overcrowding problem.
IV. under the Constitution, pretrial detention may never exceed 90 days.

• A) I, II, III, IV
• B) I, II, III
• C) I, IV
• D) III

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Definitions:

Standard Normal

A special case of the normal distribution where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.

10th Percentile

The value below which 10% of observations in a data set fall.

Z Distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, also known as a standard normal distribution.

95th Percentile

A value below which 95% of the data points in a data set fall.