Persuading a jury.

KeyStudy3:Pickel-Investigating the effect of instructions to disregard imadmissable evidence.

Aim:To examine how much credibility of the witness affects the juror's ability to ignore inadmissible evidence.

Procedure:

• 236 Ball state university students.
• listened to an audio tape of a mock trail.
• critical evidence was introduced 'accidentally by a witness this was ruled as admissable by the judge and the jury should ignore it.

Condition1:the judge's ruling was followed by a legal explanation of…