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Journalist: Support When judges do not maintain strict control over their courtrooms, lawyers often try to influence jury verdicts by using inflammatory language and by badgering witnesses. █████ ███████████ █████████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██████ ██ █████ █ ███████ ████████ ████████ ███████ ██████ ██ ████ █████████ ██████████ ██ ██ ██████████ ██ █████ ███████ ███ ███████ ██ ████████
Summarize Argument
A Journalist argues that it is reasonable to doubt whether a verdict is correct when judges do not maintain strict control over their courtrooms. Without such control, lawyers often use inflammatory language and badger witnesses, hindering the jury’s effort to reach a correct verdict.
Notable Assumptions
The Journalist assumes that lawyers often effectively influence jury verdicts through obstructive behaviors.
The Journalist also assumes that the impact of obstructive behaviors outweighs that of other evidence/testimony
Analysis by Spaulding.Bingaman
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