By What Standard Do the Courts Determine Whether Reasonable Suspicion

question 54

Multiple Choice

By what standard do the courts determine whether reasonable suspicion existed to justify a Terry stop?

• A)the extenuating circumstances test
• B)the totality of the circumstances
• C)eyewitness testimony
• D)the judgment of the officer involved

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Definitions:

Sample Size

The number of observations or items selected from a population to participate in a statistical analysis.

Correlation Coefficient

A rephrased definition from KT-15: A numerical index ranging from -1 to 1 that indicates the extent to which two variables have a linear relationship.

Interval Variables

Another term for interval data, indicating variables measured along a scale on which each point is placed at equal distance from one another, with meaningful quantifiable differences but without a true zero.

Spearman Correlation

A measure of rank correlation, independent of parametric assumptions, which determines how accurately a monotonic function can depict the relationship between two variables.