Juror Reasoning Is Admissible
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
20431_customs-bailiff-affidavit · EVIDENCE · Choice AConsider both statements because the verdict's validity is being challenged.
Why it's attractive
Real power to inquire into validity stretched to swallow the mental-process bar.
Why it's wrong
Real power to inquire into validity stretched to swallow the mental-process bar.
20431_customs-bailiff-affidavit · EVIDENCE · Choice BConsider only Hannah's statement about misunderstanding the instruction, because it directly explains her vote.
Why it's attractive
'Directly explains her vote' is the hallmark of barred mental-process testimony, not a reason to admit it.
Why it's wrong
'Directly explains her vote' is the hallmark of barred mental-process testimony, not a reason to admit it.
20431_customs-bailiff-affidavit · EVIDENCE · Choice DExclude the entire affidavit because jurors may never testify about anything once a verdict is returned.
Why it's attractive
'never... anything' ignores the known external-information carve-out.
Why it's wrong
'never... anything' ignores the known external-information carve-out.
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