__________ occurs when the court collects a deposit from the individual being released in order to ensure that he or she appears for later scheduled hearings.

Conviction rates for indigent defendants and those with their own lawyers were about the same in Federal and State courts. About_______% of Federal defendants and ________% of the defendants in the most populous counties were found guilty regardless of the type of their attorneys.

By the time of the Revolution, there were fewer than ______ lawyers in Massachusetts, which had a population of around 200,000, a much smaller ratio than today.

The right to a jury trial has always been recognized in the federal courts, but this right was not extended to the states until 1968 in the case of ________.

Attorneys in criminal cases often require their clients to pay a _________, or fees paid in advance for their services.

This is the leading professional organization for defense attorneys in the United States.

In ______, Texas, two state district judges adopted a policy of prohibiting all plea negotiations in their courts as a method of ensuring equal treatment for similarly situated defendants.

By the _________ century, legal training lasting approximately four years was necessary to become a defense lawyer.

In the __________, DNA testing entered the mainstream.

On the whole, most offenses are committed by people______.