- In 2019, there were, on average, (1) incidents per day that released illegal pollutants into the air, water, and soil of the state, (2) percent of all of the incidents resulted in the corporations receiving any penalties from the (3), which is charged with enforcing state laws to prevent pollution.
- Increasingly, the Texas criminal justice system is sending more individuals to (1) rather than (2). This has led to a(n) (3) in prison construction across the state.
- Numerous (1), mostly large urban areas, have chosen not to cooperate with immigration officials in holding undocumented immigrants for ICE and have been threatened by (2) with the withholding of federal funds for failing to cooperate.
- Imagine that you are a conservative Republican legislator who, like the majority of the members in the state legislature, supports traditional law-and-order positions as well as low-tax, low-service fiscal policies. What motivation might you have to support reform policies, often associated with more liberal policy goals, that favor probation over prison time?
- People convicted of a felony in Texas can lose their right to vote.
- Clemency or changes to the terms of a prison sentence may be offered to a state prisoner by the (1) with approval from a majority of the (2), except in capital crimes.
- After conviction, death penalty sentences are carried out swiftly.
- Based on the passage below, determine which of the following gives the most accurate definition of "probable cause.""Grand juries do not find people guilty or not guilty but instead will vote a 'true bill,' meaning that they find probable cause that the accused has committed the crime, or a 'no bill,' meaning that they do not find probable cause."
- A prosecutor has a robbery case in which there are contradictory confessions from the two defendants and evidence that shows they were both involved; however, the role of each defendant is unclear. The prosecutor could charge both with the robbery charge, but the chances of conviction are uncertain.Which of the following options explains what the prosecutor will likely do and why?
- Which of the following is a struggle that urban police departments and rural police departments have in common?
- Who exposed unsanitary practices in meat production through 'The Jungle'?
- what states became nation states during the rise of the global trade?
- The New World crops of corn and potatoes revolutionized the European diet. true or false
- many of the europeans in the first wave of settlement died of?
- what solved the labor shortage during Virgina and Maryland?
- When Columbus reached land while on his 1492 voyage, he believed that he had landed in?
- Which colony was established in part to provide a buffer against Spanish Florida?
- what motivated the Europeans to journey to the new world?
- who declared Bacon to be a rebel and ordered him to a dual?
- who were the "first" to discover and colonize the americas?