When Police Interrogations of a Suspect Are Videotaped,the Camera Is

question 28

Multiple Choice

When police interrogations of a suspect are videotaped,the camera is usually focused only on the suspect.Research Lassiter et al.,2002) suggests that .

• A)jurors who view videotaped confessions tend to think that inappropriate questioning techniques were used before the videotape was made
• B)jurors who view videotaped confessions tend to be more educated and less prone to illusory correlations than are jurors who do not view such tapes
• C)jurors who view videotaped confessions tend to focus their attention on the events that occur at the center of the videotape,rather than near the beginning or end
• D)jurors who view videotaped confessions tend to think that the confession is less voluntary,and the suspect is less guilty,if the videotape also shows the interrogator
• E)jurors who view videotaped confessions that show the interrogator tend to think that the confession is more voluntary,and the suspect is guiltier

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