Quiz Five ~ Exculpatory Evidence

1. What is the definition of exculpatory evidence?
  Evidence which confirms guilt
  Evidence which frees one from guilt
  Evidence which is irrelevant
  Evidence which has no truthful bases

2. In the Duke Lacrosse case, exculpatory evidence...
  was withheld from the defense by Prosecutor Mike Nifong
  consisted of hair and fiber specimens
  which consisted of DNA results, was presented by Prosecutor Mike Nifong to the defense in a timely manner
  was non-existent

3. In the Michael Peterson case, exculpatory evidence withheld from the defense was...
  a fireplace poker
  a tire iron found near the crime scene
  DNA test results secretly conducted by the prosecutors
  included three witness statements

4. Exculpatory evidence is...
  constantly utilized by prosecutors to win a conviction
  typically withheld by both prosecutors and defense attorneys
  more often withheld by defense attorneys than prosecutors
  at times withheld by prosecutors in order to win a conviction

5. Attorney General Roy Cooper defended which prosecutor(s) for withholding the exculpatory existence of a possible murder weapon?
  Randy Lyons
  Ken Honeycutt and Scott Brewer
  Michael D. Parker
  Freda Black and James Hardin

6. What exculpatory evidence was withheld from defense attorneys in the Michael Peterson case?
  A tire iron, only
  A tire iron and tests performed on it
  A fireplace poker
  DNA test results and a fireplace poker

7. Withheld exculpatory evidence was a major factor in the prosecution obtaining a conviction in which following case?
  Alan Gell case
  Erick Daniels case
  James Arthur Johnson case
  Julian Tyson Deans case

8. In the Duke Lacrosse case, the presence of multiple unidentified male DNA on the accuser's rape kit exam...
  exonerated the Duke Lacrosse defendants
  iimplicated the Duke Lacrosse defendants
  was important exculpatory evidence in the case
  was extraneous, irrelevant information of no value to the Duke Lacrosse defendants

9. In the Duke Lacrosse case, the defense team received from the prosecution
  a summary of the lab findings plus complete DNA findings from the rape kit exam
  a summary only, and no complete laboratory report
  a laboratory report that had been redacted and edited
  laboratory findings that had been falsified

10. Which of the following is not an example of withheld exculpatory evidence?
  Withholding from defense a list of witnesses who had saw a murder victim alive after the defendant was incarcerated on unrelated charges
  Withholding from the defense the existence of a tire iron when the prosecution claims a murder weapon was most likely a missing fireplace poker
  Withholding from the defense the existence of a knife when a murder victim's only injury is blunt force head trauma
  Withholding from the defense that testimony from a jail house snitch was impossible because there was no record that the witness was ever at the jail in question



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