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Redwolflake15

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Studies of mock jurists have found that they tend to
 
  a. ignore evidence presented early in the trial.
  b. ignore evidence presented late in the trial.
  c. distort evidence to make it consistent with their view.
  d. distort evidence to make it consistent with the judge's view.

Question 2

Pennington and Hastie's jury model of decision making is based on
 
  a. expected utility. c. Bayes' theorem.
  b. expected value. d. story construction.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D



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