Originally Most Prosecutions Under the _______ Act Were Based on Extortion

question 83

Essay

Originally most prosecutions under the _______ Act were based on extortion by public officials by force, violence, or fear.Now prosecutors frequently rely on the act to prosecute state and local officials based on extortion "under color of official rights."

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values.

Confidence Interval

An estimated range of values which is likely to include an unknown population parameter, calculated from a given set of sample data.

Margin of Error

An expression of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results, indicating a range within which the true value lies at a certain confidence level.

Probability

The extent to which an event is likely to occur, measured by the ratio of the favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible.