Matching - Selection 1

Directions: Match the words or phrases on the left with the appropriate answers on the right. Select the correct letter in the space provided. Use each answer only once.

Reading Selection 1 The Defendant's Characteristics, by David G. Meyers
1 A) B) C) D) E) F) G) According to one trial attorney, jurors seldom __________ a person they like. 2 A) B) C) D) E) F) G) Clarence Darrow said that the main job of the trial lawyer was to make the jurors like the defendant, and that the facts regarding the crime are relatively __________. A study demonstrated that he was overly cynical; facts do matter. 3 A) B) C) D) E) F) G) When jurors are asked to make __________, facts are not all that matter. 4 A) B) C) D) E) F) G) Cicero's advice: The final good and the supreme duty of the wise man is to resist__________. 5 A) B) C) D) E) F) G) It seems that we are more __________ toward a defendant with whom we can identify. 6 A) B) C) D) E) F) G) Ideally, jurors would leave their __________ outside the courtroom. 7 A) B) C) D) E) F) G) When the evidence is clear, and jurors focus on it, their biases are minimal. The quality of the evidence matters more than the __________ of the jurors.			Answer choices for questions 1 through 7 A) convict B) prejudices C) sympathetic D) biases E) unimportant F) appearance G) social judgments