When Determining Whether to File Charges, Why Is It Important

question 2

Multiple Choice

When determining whether to file charges, why is it important to distinguish between a defendant who does not know there is a law applying to his or her activity versus a defendant who knows there is a relevant law, but is not sure whether it applies in the exact circumstances in question?

• A) One applies to mistake of law and the other applies to ignorance of law.
• B) One applies to ignoring the law and the other applies to mistake of law.
• C) One applies to criminal law and the other applies to civil law.
• D) None of the above.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A set of numbers resulting from the statistical examination of a sample, expected to encompass the value of an undetermined parameter of the overall population.

Critical Values

Specific points on the scale of a test statistic that delineate the boundary between rejecting and not rejecting the null hypothesis.

Independent Large Samples

This refers to samples that are drawn from populations in such a way that the selection of a unit in one sample does not influence the selection of units in other samples, and each sample contains a sufficiently large number of observations.

Population Standard Deviations

The square root of the population variance, indicating how data is dispersed around the mean.