Q4

[hjia]

I just don't understand why choose D.

Is the last paragraph of passage a suggesting juries should not interpret the law while the third paragraph of passage b suggesting that the juries should interpret it.

It is so hard to understand their implications while I am doing a timed test.

can anyone help me?

[ohthatpatrick]

Question Type:
Author Opinion

Answer expected in lines/paragraph:
Since the authors largely disagreed on whether jury nullification was a good/bad thing, we would anticipate evaluative lines in each passage. (lines 9-28 are all pretty fair game from psg A) (lines 41-61 from psg B also could be contenders)

Any prephrase?
It doesn't seem like Psg B directly answered any of psg A's concerns. i.e. Psg B didn't say that we DO know why juries nullify and how often, that they DO know the past criminal record of defendants, that the jurors ARE obliged to think through the effects of an acquittal. So I would expect a fuzzier, headline claim about whether jurors exercising their nullification powers are usually doing something good or bad.

Correct answer:
D

Answer choice analysis:

(A) Psg B didn't cover this

(B) Both would agree that laws are eligible for people to debate

(C) No one is making a head to head comparison between how biased officials vs. jurors are

(D) This is the closest thing to saying, "SHOULD jurors use their nullification power?"

(E) Psg A didn't cover police/prosecutors at all.

Takeaway/Pattern: The correct answer was essentially just reinforicng the main relationship between the two passages: psg A was anti-juror nullification and psg B was in favor of it. The specific wording used in D is addressed in lines 23-28 and 41-48.

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