question: If a defendant is sentenced to death at the trial level, the case then goes into a direct review. The direct review process is a typical legal appeal. An appellate court examines the record of evidence presented in the trial court and the law that the lower court applied and decides whether the decision was legally sound or not. Direct review of a capital sentencing hearing will result in one of three outcomes. If the appellate court finds that no significant legal errors occurred in the capital sentencing hearing, the appellate court will affirm the judgment, or let the sentence stand. If the appellate court finds that significant legal errors did occur, then it will reverse the judgment, or nullify the sentence and order a new capital sentencing hearing. Lastly, if the appellate court finds that no reasonable juror could find the defendant eligible for the death penalty, a rarity, then it will order the defendant acquitted, or not guilty, of the crime for which he/she was given the death penalty, and order him sentenced to the next most severe punishment for which the offense is eligible. About 60 percent survive the process of direct review intact.
1. Who has the authority to decide if a court decision was legally sound?
2. How many judgement possibilities are there?
3. How many outcomes are possible after a direct review?
4. What happens to the decision if it was determined the case was without error?
5. When would the judgement be reversed?
6. Is it common for the defendent to be acquitted?
7. If a defendent is found ineleigible for the death penalty, what punishment will they recieve?
8. When does a case go to a direct review?
9. Which court reviews the case?
10. How many defendents survive the direct review process?
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answer: 1. appellate court
2. unknown
3. one of three
4. the appellate court will affirm the judgment
5. f significant legal errors occured
6. No
7. it will order the defendant acquitted
8. when a defendant is sentenced to death
9. appellate
10. 60 percent

question: The Chinese-born American architect Ieoh Ming Pei is one of the most creative architects of our times. He has incorporated both eastern and western ideas into his designs.

Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou, China on April 26, 1917. His father was a famous banker. In 1935, at the age of 17, he came to the United States to study architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1942, he entered the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy selected Pei to design the Kennedy library. After that he became well-known all over the world. People named it one of the Ten Best Buildings in the United States. In 1968, Pei started work on the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C. Over one million people visited the building during its first 50 days in existence.

Following the East Wing project Pei's fame has continued to grow widely. In 1983, French President commissioned Pei to help make the Louvre more modern. Ten years later, the completion of Pei's glass pyramid at the Louvre created a new historic landmark for Paris. Pei described it as, "the greatest challenge and greatest accomplishment of my career." At Fragrant Hill, a 300-room hotel in the Chinese capital, Pei has attempted to bring to his native China his often-quoted "third way of making buildings." Avoiding both a complete copying of traditional Chinese motifs as well as the modernism of the West, Pei has managed, at Fragrant Hill, to make one of his most eloquent statements.

Pei has designed nearly 50 projects in the United States and abroad. About half of these projects have won major awards. Pei has been awarded the highest honors from nations over the world. In 1990, Pei was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President George Bush for his contributions to world peace and service to the US government.
1. who is the main person in story
2. what does he put in his designs
3. where was he born
4. what day
5. what did his dad do
6. what year did he come to the us
7. why
8. where
9. what year did he go to harvard
10. who chose him to design the library
11. what did others name it
12. what did he work on next
13. how many people went to it in the beginning
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answer: 1. Ieoh Ming Pei
2. both eastern and western ideas
3. Guangzhou, China
4. April 26, 1917
5. banker.
6. 1935
7. to study architecture
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
9. 1942
10. Jacqueline Kennedy
11. one of the Ten Best Buildings in the United States.
12. the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art
13. Over one million

question: The iPod is a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first line was released on October 23, 2001, about 8 months after iTunes (Macintosh version) was released. The most recent iPod redesigns were announced on July 15, 2015. There are three current versions of the iPod: the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle, the compact iPod Nano and the touchscreen iPod Touch.

Like other digital music players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB for the iPod Shuffle to 128 GB for the iPod Touch (previously 160 GB for the iPod Classic, which is now discontinued).

Apple's iTunes software (and other alternative software) can be used to transfer music, photos, videos, games, contact information, e-mail settings, Web bookmarks, and calendars, to the devices supporting these features from computers using certain versions of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
1. Is the iPod a phone?
2. Is it a portable device?
3. What is it exactly?
4. How many kinds are there currently?
5. Is the iPod Classic one of them?
6. Who makes the iPod?
7. When was it first put out?
8. Was that before iTunes?
9. What happened on July 15, 2015?
10. Which did these include?
11. Which is the smallest?
12. How did the iPod Touch get its name?
13. Can iPods store files?
14. Which current type can hold the most?
15. How large is that one?
16. Is that the biggest they've ever made?
17. Which one was?
18. How many gigs was that one?
19. How does one transfer music on an iPod?
20. Does it work with Windows?
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answer:
1. No
2. Yes
3. a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers
4. three
5. No
6. Apple Inc.
7. October 23, 2001
8. No
9. The most recent iPod redesigns were announced
10. the iPod Shuffle, the iPod Nano and the iPod Touch.
11. iPod Shuffle
12. the touchscreen
13. Yes
14. iPod Touch
15. 128 GB
16. No
17. the iPod Classic
18. 160 GB
19. Apple's iTunes software (and other alternative software)
20. Yes