Author Question: 4 Dissenting opinion are important because: a. they represents the position of the chief justice. ... (Read 21 times)

Haya94 · **on:** Jul 12, 2018

4 Dissenting opinion are important because:

a. they represents the position of the chief justice.
b. they are the statement of the defendant's attorney.
c. in criminal law they must be carried out by local police.
d. they can form the basis of arguments used years later reversing the majority opinion in a similar case.

Question 2

3 A justice of the Supreme Court who agrees with the decision of the majority in a case but not the reasons for that decision may write his own:

a. minority opinion
b. majority opinion
c. amicus curiae opinion
d. concurring opinion
e. dissenting opinion