Question:

The U.S. has bilateral extradition treaties with many countries. (A person charged with a crime

in his home country may escape to the U.S.; if he is captured in the U.S., authorities in his

home country may request that he be "extradited," that is, turned over for prosecution under

their laws.) The Senate attached a special rider to the treaty governing extradition to Northern

Ireland: fugitives cannot be returned if they will be discriminated against on the basis of religion.

In a leading case, the defense tried to establish discrimination in Northern Ireland's criminal

justice system.

One argument was based on 1991 acquittal rates for persons charged with terrorist offenses. According to a defense expert, these rates were significantly different for Protestants and Catholics. In this problem we will test this assertion.

The data are shown below: 8 Protestants out of 15 were acquitted, compared to 27 Catholics

out of 65.

1. First, fill in the table with expected counts.
2. What is the x^2 statistic?
3. How many degrees of freedom are associated with this x^2 statistic?
4. According to the table in the book, the p-value is in what range?
5. What do you conclude?

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