Multiple Choice
In a criminal case tried before a jury, the role of the jury involves making a determination of guilt or innocence. In making this decision, the jury:
A) may consider only facts presented in the form of direct evidence.
B) may consider facts presented in the form of direct evidence but also may consider information coming to them from other sources, such as information judicially noticed by the judge.
C) must make the decision only from judicially noticed information, legal presumptions, and judicially approved inferences.
D) may not consider circumstantial evidence.
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