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Defamation Reputation Evidence Only Affects Damages

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

  • 14878_daily-bread-reputation · EVIDENCE · Choice BYes, to reduce or refute the damages claimed, but not to prove that Mary is dishonest with customers.

    Why it's attractive

    Keeps one live purpose and drops the other.

    Why it's wrong

    Keeps one live purpose and drops the other.

  • 14878_daily-bread-reputation · EVIDENCE · Choice CNo, because character is an essential element of the defense, and proof must be made by specific instances of conduct.

    Why it's attractive

    Turns one permitted proof method into the only method.

    Why it's wrong

    Turns one permitted proof method into the only method.

  • 14878_daily-bread-reputation · EVIDENCE · Choice DYes, to prove that Mary is dishonest with customers, but not on the issue of damages.

    Why it's attractive

    Keeps truth and drops damages.

    Why it's wrong

    Keeps truth and drops damages.

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