Juries That Hear Evidence and Sit in Judgment on Charges

question 143

Multiple Choice

Juries that hear evidence and sit in judgment on charges brought in civil or criminal cases are known as

• A) peer juries.
• B) appellate juries.
• C) original juries.
• D) district juries.
• E) petit juries.

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Definitions:

Population Mean

The average value of a population's characteristic, calculated by summing all values and dividing by the population size.

Population Proportion

The fraction of a population that possesses a particular attribute or characteristic.

Margin of Error

A measure indicating the level of random sampling error present in the findings of a survey.

Confidence Interval

A set of numbers, coming from the statistics of a sample, which probably includes the value of a parameter from a population that is not known.