The Exclusionary Rule

question 26

Multiple Choice

The exclusionary rule

• A) requires that a defendant not be prosecuted if police violate the defendant's rights.
• B) requires that police be prosecuted if they violate a defendant's rights.
• C) does not require the exclusion of other evidence that is not connected to the tainted evidence.
• D) forbids prosecution with poisonous fruits.

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Definitions:

Consistent Estimator

An attribute of an estimator indicating that as the sample size increases, the estimates it produces converge in probability to the parameter being estimated.

Sample Mean

The mean value derived from a dataset sample, utilized to predict the overall population's average.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a statistic (like a mean) derived from a large number of samples of a population.

Unbiased Estimators

Statistical estimators that are expected to equal the population parameter over many samples.