LSAT 146 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q2

RC Question 2 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The author of passage A dislikes jury nullification. The author of passage B likes it.

This is all you need to know. Author A dislikes nullification because they don’t trust juries to act correctly – they would rather laws be debated in an open forum.

Author B likes nullification because they generally trust juries to do the sensible thing.

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1. This is the opposite. Author B is more trusting of juries, and therefore more trusting of their motives.
    
   (Author A explicitly questions juries’ motives on line 15…. “evil ends”)
2. This is a very tempting answer. But the author of passage A actually didn’t suggest juries have trouble understanding laws.
    
   Their concerns were instead i. about whether juries would use the power morally, ii. that they lacked information about defendants (not legal understanding) and iii. that laws should be debated openly.
3. Not so. The author of passage B likes jury nullification, so they are less concerned about not knowing juries’ reasoning.
4. CORRECT. This matches. On lines 15-16, the author of passage A suggests that jury nullification may be used for “evil ends”. The author of passage B likes jury nullification, and mentions no such concerns about whether it will be used morally.
5. Nonsense. The author of passage B didn’t express disappointment with juries. And they didn’t mention social change.