LSAT-20-3-15

Questions 14-15

Politician: The mandatory jail sentences that became law two years ago for certain crimes have enhanced

the integrity of our system of justice, for no longer are there two kinds of justice, the kind dispensed by

lenient judges and the kind dispensed by severe ones. Public advocate: But with judges stripped of

discretionary powers, there can be no leniency even where it would be appropriate. So juries now sometimes

acquit a given defendant solely because the jurors feel that the mandatory sentence would be too harsh.

Those juries, then, do not return an accurate verdict on the defendant's guilt. This is why it is imperative that

the legislation instituting mandatory jail sentences be repealed.

countering the public advocate's argument?

(A) Juries should always consider whether the sum of the evidence leaves any reasonable doubt concerning

the defendant's guilt, and in all cases in which it does, they should acquit the defendant

(B) A system of justice should clearly define what the specific actions are that judges are to perform within

the system.

(C) A system of justice should not require any legal expertise on the part of the people selected to serve on

juries.

(D) Changes in a system of justice in response to some undesirable feature of the system should be made as

soon as possible once that feature has been recognized as undesirable.

(E) Changes in a system of justice that produce undesirable consequences should be reversed only if it is not

feasible to ameliorate those undesirable consequences through further modification.

KEY E

我选的A.我觉得E这个原则和题目切合得不好,太泛泛. A好些.请问NN们是什么看法?为什么选E?