Critique Continued ·Lawyer's obligation to the court and society ultimately benefits the defendant too
The defendant deserves a lawyer who truly believes in their innocence. Lawyers can simply refuse cases where they don't believe in their clients' innocence.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
6.
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Question Type
Author’s perspective
Implied
The author’s opinion about this is in the middle of P2: “lawyers who are convinced that their clients are guilty should not undertake to demonstrate their innocence.” In other words, a lawyer should not believe the client is guilty if they’re going to argue the client is innocent.
a
should sincerely believe ████ ███ ██████ ███ ██ ████████
Supported. If a lawyer argues the client is innocent, they should not be convinced that the client is guilty.
97%
b
would be right ██ ██ ██ ████ ██ ███ ████████ █████ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████ ██████
Anti-supported. The author believes the opposite.
1%
c
is assuming the ████ ██ ██████████ ███ ███ ██████
Not supported, because if the lawyer believes the client may be innocent, then the argument is based on the lawyer’s assessment of the facts. The lawyer isn’t just blindly arguing the client’s innocence regardless of the facts.
2%
d
has favored the ██████████ ██ ███ ██████ ████ ████ ██ ███████
Not supported, because one can argue in favor of the defendant while also honoring one’s obligation to society.
1%
e
has typically not ██████████ ███ █████ ██ ███ ████ ██████████
Not supported, because the lawyer may be arguing for the client’s innocence precisely because of their research into the facts.
0%
Difficulty
97% of people who answer get this correct
This is a slightly challenging question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%131
139
75%146
Analysis
Author’s perspective
Author’s perspective
Stems that ask us to find an answer the author is most likely to agree with.
Stems asking us to infer an idea implied by the claims in the passage (as opposed to identifying an idea that appears explicitly). Similar to most strongly supported questions in LR.
Critique or debate passages contain multiple points of view on a particular subject. Sometimes the author takes sides and participates in the critique or debate, other times the author merely reports the debate.
