When Jurors Are Exposed During the Trial to a New

question 33

Multiple Choice

When jurors are exposed during the trial to a new piece of evidence, they tend to distort their evaluation of that evidence in a direction that supports their current verdict choice.What is this tendency called?

• A)evidentiary distortion
• B)current-to-future distortion
• C)verdict predisposition
• D)predecisional distortion

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