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Admissibility Vs Weight

This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”

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Example wrong choices

  • 14834_orchard-dying-declaration · EVIDENCE · Choice Aa question of weight and credibility for the jury, and the jury may properly consider the affidavit.

    Why it's attractive

    call asks about ADMISSIBILITY; jury decides weight, not admissibility

    Why it's wrong

    call asks about ADMISSIBILITY; jury decides weight, not admissibility

  • 14834_orchard-dying-declaration · EVIDENCE · Choice Ba preliminary fact question for the judge, and the judge must not consider the affidavit.

    Why it's attractive

    correctly names judge, then over-applies the hearsay bar

    Why it's wrong

    correctly names judge, then over-applies the hearsay bar

  • 14834_orchard-dying-declaration · EVIDENCE · Choice Da question of weight and credibility for the jury, and the jury must not consider the affidavit.

    Why it's attractive

    stacks the two visible errors; lowest pull

    Why it's wrong

    stacks the two visible errors; lowest pull

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