The Objective of a Criminal Investigation Is to Determine ______________

question 22

Multiple Choice

The objective of a criminal investigation is to determine ______________.

• A) Whether the police can get a suspect to confess
• B) The truth as far as it can be discovered in any inquiry
• C) Means, motive and opportunity for any suspect
• D) Who did the crime; not necessarily the "truth"

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Definitions:

Lewis and Clark

Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led the early 19th-century expedition across the western United States to explore territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.

Shoshone Indian

A member of a Native American people originally from the western United States, including parts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Idaho.

Pacific Ocean

The largest and deepest of the Earth's oceanic divisions, extending from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south.

Sacajawea

A Lemhi Shoshone woman who is best known for her role as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition in the early 1800s.