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cookcarl

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on: Jun 22, 2018
When jurors are exposed during the trial to a new piece of evidence, they tend to distort their evaluation of that evidence in a direction that supports their current verdict choice. What is this tendency called?
 
  A. evidentiary distortion
  B. current-to-future distortion
  C. verdict predisposition
  D. predecisional distortion

Question 2

Goodman-Delahunty, Greene and Hsio (1998) found that jurors in favor of the death penalty versus those opposed were more likely to infer that a presented defendant
 
  A. intended to murder the victim.
  B. displayed actions that suggested premeditation.
  C. intended to murder again.
  D. both A and B


yasmin

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

D


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