What Type of Discretion Do Judges Exercise

question 27

Multiple Choice

What type of discretion do judges exercise?

• A)deciding whether to stop, search, or arrest an individual
• B)filing formal charges
• C)setting bail, denying bail, and imposing sentences
• D)disciplines incarcerated offenders for violations committed in prison

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

Represents the number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another piece of information or parameter in a dataset.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test, used to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.

T Value

A value derived from a T-test, used to determine if there is a significant difference between two groups.

Independent-Samples T Test

A method of statistical analysis that compares the average values of two separate groups to see if their differences are statistically meaningful.