What Is the First Step Toward Determining the Suspect's Guilt

question 107

Multiple Choice

What is the first step toward determining the suspect's guilt or innocence after an arrest has been made?

• A) indictment
• B) information
• C) initial appearance
• D) preliminary hearing

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Definitions:

If-then Statement

A logical conditional statement stating that if one thing happens, then another will as well, expressing a causal or inferential relationship.

Asserted

Stated confidently or declared as true.

Disjunctive Syllogism

A logical rule that concludes one disjunct must be false if the other is true, usually in the form: Either A or B; not A; therefore, B.

Unstated Premise

A component of an argument that is not expressed but is assumed to be true for the argument to hold.