Defense Attorneys Have a Duty to Investigate Possible Mitigating Circumstances

question 33

True/False

Defense attorneys have a duty to investigate possible mitigating circumstances for all homicide charges.

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Definitions:

Expected Frequency

The predicted number of times an outcome is expected to occur in a statistical experiment, based on theoretical probability distribution.

Significance Level

The threshold used in statistical testing to determine if a result is statistically significant, commonly set at 0.05, indicating a 5% risk of concluding an effect exists when it does not.

Z-Test

A statistical test used to determine whether two population means are different when the variances are known and the sample size is large.

Degrees of Freedom

The total number of independent pieces of information that went into the estimation of a parameter or the calculation of a statistic.