PrepTest 104, Section 3, Question 2
The expansion of mass media has led to(458 more words not shown)
One critic characterizes judges' instructions(21 more words not shown)
- Adeliberate only on(13 more words not shown)
- Bdistinguish between pretrial(8 more words not shown)
- Chear about a(9 more words not shown)
- Didentify accurately the(10 more words not shown)
- Eprotect themselves from(4 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Can you just shut off something you know? That's the critic's objection. A judge can tell jurors to ignore information learned outside court, but the instruction doesn't remove that information from their minds.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Jurors would have to use what they learned at trial while setting aside what they knew beforehand. That separation is the “mental contortions” the critic doubts they can perform.
- B
This asks whether jurors can tell speculation from fact. The instruction concerns information's source: even something they believe to be true must be ignored if they learned it outside court.
- C
Having an opinion before trial and setting it aside during deliberation are different. The critic is discussing the second problem, not whether someone can hear about a case without forming an opinion.
- D
Underestimating how much they know is a problem discussed in the next paragraph. Here the concern is whether jurors can disregard their knowledge, not accurately report its extent.
- E
Avoiding publicity would keep information from reaching people. The instruction asks them to ignore information they've already encountered. That's the difficult mental task being criticized.
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