Author Question: A police officer testifies that the defendant in a murder trial confessed to the crime. Under ... (Read 73 times)

c0205847 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

A police officer testifies that the defendant in a murder trial confessed to the crime. Under cross-examination, the officer reveals details of the interrogation that suggest it is likely that the defendant was coerced into confessing. How are jurors likely to react to the confession evidence?

a. Jurors will discount the confession because it was coerced.
b. Jurors will accept the confession because as a general rule jurors don't believe that people would confess to acrime that they did not commit.
c. Jurors will believe that they have discounted the confession, but will vote to convict anyway.
d. If the judge instructs jurors to disregard the confession evidence, then they will discount it, but otherwise, theywill not.

Question 2

Kashima and others (2013) had Australian students transmit a story about a football player from one person to the next. Their results indicated that as the story went from person to person,

a. the stereotype-inconsistent information was eventually weeded out.
b. the stereotype-inconsistent information was eventually exaggerated.
c. the stereotype-consistent information was often distorted.
d. its content remained relatively consistent.