Randomly selected sample data for san francisco defendants

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Is sentence Independent of Plea? Many people believe that criminals who plead guilty tend to get lighter sentences than those who are convened in trials. The accompanying table summarizes randomly selected sample data for San Francisco Defendants in burglary cases. All of the subjects and prior prison sentences. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that the sentence is independent of the plea. IF you were an attomey defending a guilty defendant, would these results suggest that you should encourage a guilty plea?

	Guilty Plea	Not Guilty Plea
Sent to prison	392	58
Not Sent to prison	564	14

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