Charging the Defendant with a More Serious Crime Than the Evidence

question 17

Multiple Choice

Charging the defendant with a more serious crime than the evidence may be able to support at trial.

• A) Chivalry hypothesis
• B) Good time credit
• C) Gregg v. Georgia
• D) Determinate sentences
• E) Consecutive sentences
• F) Horizontal overcharging
• G) Furman v. Georgia
• H) Concurrent sentences
• I) Indeterminate sentences
• J) Vertical overcharging

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