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• a police officer in the United States may only briefly detain and frisk a person if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in a crime?
• in Frendak v. United States the court ruled that a competent defendant, who experts testified was probably insane when he committed the crime, cannot be forced to use the insanity defense?
• the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants aimed to prevent girls in London from becoming prostitutes, criminals and alcoholics by training them as domestic servants?
• Ryan Holle is serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for letting his roommate borrow his car that was then used in a crime?
• footprints have revealed clues about the activity of criminals and dinosaurs, and have also been the source of several myths and legends?
• "bunchers" are criminals involved in kidnapping pets from residences, trapping stray animals illegally, and selling them to laboratories for animal testing purposes?
• biosocial criminology predicts that left handed individuals are more likely to engage in criminal behavior than right handed ones?
• change of venue is the legal term for moving a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or the defendant?
• intoxication is never recognized as an excuse for crime, but settled insanity due to substance abuse is?