PT104.S3.P1.Q4

PrepTest 104 - Section 3 - Passage 1 - Question 4

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P1

The expansion of mass media has led to an explosion in news coverage of criminal activities to the point where it has become virtually impossible to find citizens who are unaware of the details of crimes committed in their communities. █████ ██ ██ █████████ ████████ ████ ██████ ███ ████ ███ █████ ██ █ ████ ███ ████ ██████ ████ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██ ████ ██ ███████ █████ ███ █████ ███ ████ ██ ██ ████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██████ ███ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███ █████ ████████ ██████████ ██ █████ ██ ██████ █ ████████ ██████████ █████████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ██ █ ████████ ████ ██ █████ ████████ ███████ ████████████ ██ ██████ █████████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ██████ █████████

Problem · Mass media coverage of crime has made it hard to impanel impartial jurors
P2

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Solution · Moving trials to new venues, giving specific instructions to juries
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Critique (of Solution) · Change of venue and instructions cannot render jurors impartial
P3

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Solution · Voir dire
Questioning of potential jurors to determine impartiality
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Critique (of Solution) · Voir dire is unrealiable
1. Some potential jurors don't tell the truth; 2. Some potential jurors are confused about what they know; 3. Some judges ask leading questions.
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Consequences of Critique · Some countries have abandoned voir dire
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Problem · How to ensure impartiality?
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Author's Solution · With the right jury composition
Impartiality is a property not of an individual juror but rather of the collective jury. It can be achieved via a process of deliberation among informed, curious, and even opinionated jurors.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Problem-analysis
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4.

With which one of the █████████ ██████████ █████ ███ ██████ ██ ████ ██████ ██ ██████

a

Flaws in voir ████ ██████████ ████ ██ ████████ ████ ██████ ███████ ██ █████████ █████████ █████████ ███ ██ █████████

The author thinks impartiality does not require that a juror completely ignore information learned outside the courtroom. So we don’t know that the author thinks voir dire is unlikely to produce impartial decisions. Under the traditional understanding of impartiality, the author might agree. But the author advocates for a different understanding of impartiality.

6%
b

Knowledge of a ████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ █████ ██████ ██████████ ██████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ █████████ █████████ ██████████

Although the author believes impartiality does not require that a jury ignore everything learned outside the courtroom, that doesn’t imply the author thinks a juror needs to have knowledge of a case before trial for the “best” chance of making an impartial decision.

2%
c

Jurors who bring █████ ████████ █████ █ ████ ██ █████ █████████████ ████ ███ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ █████████ █████████

Supported by the author’s perspective in the last paragraph. The author thinks impartiality doesn’t require a juror to have no opinions about the case before trial. Having opinions about the case before trial can be part of being impartial.

77%
d

Only juries consisting ██ ██████ ███ █████ ██ █████ █████████ ██ █ ████ ██ █████ █████████████ ███ ███████ ██ █████████ █████ █████████ ██████████

Anti-supported. The author thinks impartiality doesn’t require jurors to have no outside knowledge of the case before trial.

2%
e

People who know ███ █████ ██ █ ████ ███ ████ ███████████ █████ ██ ████ █████ ███ ██ ████

We have no evidence the author thinks that the more facts someone knows, the more opinionated they are. Although the author does mention that there’s a general belief that people who know the facts of a case are more likely to hold an opinion about the case, this doesn’t imply that the more facts one knows, the more likely to hold an opinion.

13%

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