Which of the Following Is Not Reflective of the Reasons

question 35

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not reflective of the reasons why the U.S.Supreme Court put into effect the totality of the circumstances test for assessing informant information based on the Illinois v.Gates (1983) decision?

• A) The Aguilar-Spinelli criteria were inflexible and mechanistic.
• B) Probable cause was judged to be a fluid concept.
• C) Aguilar-Spinelli made it very difficult to obtain a search warrant based on information from an anonymous informant.
• D) The Court wanted to establish a clear test could be applied in all cases using essentially the same decision factors across all cases.

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Definitions:

Test Statistic

A value, derived from sample data, that is used in a hypothesis test to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Chi-squared Statistic

A measure used in statistics to evaluate the goodness of fit between observed values and those expected theoretically.

Two Categories

Descriptive of data or entities that can be divided into two distinct groups.

Chi-squared Goodness-of-fit

A statistical test used to determine if observed data matches the expected distribution of a given hypothesis.