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1. The Supreme Court has a greater obligation to protect the rights of victims than those of criminals.- (B) Categorical Statements
2. It is clear to every intelligent person that the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, protection against cruel and unusual punishment, does not bar the use of victim impact statements – (A) Bandwagon
3. Victim reforms will destroy the constitutional rights of the accused.- (B) Categorical Statements
4. The conservative, prejudiced Supreme Court judges are too stupid to recognize the rights of the accused. - (C) Personal Attack
5. Every decent lawyer believes the harm a victim suffered because of a defendant should be considered when determining punishment.- (B) Categorical Statements
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6. Victims have absolutely no rights at all.- (B) Categorical Statements
7. Everyone agrees that victim reforms are false promises made by legislators seeking to please voters worried about crime seeking to please voters worried about crime- (C) Personal Attack– (A) Bandwagon
8. The victims’ rights movement developed because victims of crime felt they had no rights in the criminal justice system.- (A) Bandwagon
9. Thurgood Marshall, a pro-criminal, bleeding-heart liberal, considers the harm a victim suffered irrelevant in a criminal trial.- (C) Personal Attack
10. As Justice John Paul Stevens correctly points out, the defendant should have more rights than the state in a criminal trial.- (A) Bandwagon
11. Victim impact statements force juries to base their decisions on emotion rather than on objective facts. .- (C) Personal Attack
12. As Deborah Kelly, chair of the American Bar Association’s Victims’ Committee, accurately concludes, victims’ satisfaction with the criminal justice system depends more on how they were treated than how severely their
Assailants were punished. .- .- (C) Personal Attack
13. Everyone knows that judges let criminals off too easily. .- (A) Bandwagon
14. Intelligent people agree that victims’ rights deny the accused the rights to a fair and impartial trial. – (A) Bandwagon
15. As the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, William H Rehnquist, states there is no constitutional rule that exclude victim impact statements. – (D) Testimonial
A. Bandwagon - The idea that everybody does this or believes this doing something because everyone else does.
B. Categorical Statements-stating something in a way that implies there can be no argument or disagreement on the issue if this is true/ then the other is not or if this is not true, the other is true.
C. Personal Attack- criticizing an opponent personally instead of rationally debating his or her ideas.
D. Testimonial –quoting or
paraphrasing an authority or celebrity to support one’s own viewpoint.
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