When a Guilty Plea Rests on a Promise of a Prosecutor

question 133

Short Answer

When a guilty plea rests on a promise of a prosecutor, the promise must be fulfilled. This decision was upheld by the Supreme Court in the case of _____________.

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Definitions:

Masked Design

An experiment in which participants do not know whether they are in the experimental or the control condition. Previously called a blind design.

Researcher's Expectations

The preconceived notions or hypotheses that a researcher may have before conducting an experiment or study.

Random-Assignment Design

A research method used to evenly distribute participants across various groups by chance, minimizing pre-existing differences between those groups.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group of subjects that does not receive the treatment being tested, used as a benchmark to measure the effects of the treatment on the experimental group.