PrepTest 142, Section 3, Question 10
"Stealing thunder" is a courtroom strategy that consists(464 more words not shown)
It can be most reasonably(16 more words not shown)
- Awarning jurors that(16 more words not shown)
- Bdisclosing in opening(18 more words not shown)
- Cresponding to the(17 more words not shown)
- Dpointing out to(11 more words not shown)
- Estressing that one's(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Use the definition in the first sentence. A lawyer reveals something negative about the lawyer's own client before the opponent reveals it. Both parts matter: whose weakness is disclosed, and who brings it up first? An attack on the opponent or a response after disclosure won't match that sequence.
Working the answers
- A
This exposes a weakness in the opposing client. Stealing thunder involves volunteering a weakness in your own client before the other side can use it against you.
- BCorrect
The defense lawyer volunteers the client's past plagiarism at the outset of a copyright-infringement case. That's a damaging fact about the lawyer's own client, disclosed before the opposition's revelation. It gives the lawyer the opportunity to frame the information first.
- C
The opposition has already revealed the criminal background. Conceding it afterward may be a sensible response, but the lawyer has missed the defining step of getting there first.
- D
Pointing out mistaken reasoning attacks the opponent's case. It does not disclose a damaging fact about the lawyer's own client.
- E
Asking jurors to consider mitigating circumstances is an argument about how to treat the client's guilt. The answer doesn't establish the specific sequence we need: volunteering negative information before the opposition reveals it. A concession by itself is not enough.
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