In felony cases, after the initial trial, there's an appellate path where decisions can be reviewed by higher courts. The Supreme Court sits as the highest court in the state system, and it can review decisions from the intermediate Court of Appeals if parties seek further review. This makes it the final step in the appellate sequence, representing the ultimate check on lower-court rulings in many jurisdictions. The District Court is where the trial happens, not an appellate step. The Court of Appeals handles mid-level appellate review, and Family Court deals with juvenile or family-law matters rather than standard felony prosecutions. So the Supreme Court is the best answer because it represents the final level of review in the felony process.

This question tests your understanding of terms for admitting wrongdoing. A direct acknowledgment of guilt is best described as a confession. A confession explicitly states that the person did the wrongdoing and often includes details about what happened. An admission can be more general, simply acknowledging that something occurred or that a fact is true, but it doesn’t always carry the full, explicit implication of guilt. Denial is the opposite—refusing guilt. Allegation is a claim or accusation that someone did something, not an admission by the person involved. So the term that most precisely captures openly admitting guilt is confession.

This question tests understanding of which congressional act granted citizenship to residents of Puerto Rico. The act is the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917, commonly called the Jones Act. It granted U.S. citizenship to people born in Puerto Rico, making them U.S. citizens at birth, while Puerto Rico remained a U.S. territory. Beyond citizenship, it reorganized Puerto Rico’s government into a civil framework with limited self-rule. While Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, they do not have full voting representation in Congress and cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections unless they reside in a U.S. state; they elect a non-voting Resident Commissioner and participate in local elections. The other acts address immigration or refugee policy and are not about granting Puerto Rican citizenship.

This question is asking when School Safety became part of the NYPD. The merge happened in 1998, when the School Safety unit was integrated into the New York City Police Department to create a single, coordinated approach to safeguarding schools. Before then, School Safety operated separately under the Department of Education, with officers focused specifically on schools but not under police command. The 1998 integration brought these officers under NYPD supervision, standardizing training, procedures, and response to incidents across all city schools. The other years listed don’t reflect this organizational shift; they correspond to other events or reforms, not the merger itself.