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Patricia Is a Defense Attorney

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Patricia is a defense attorney. Her job requires her to confront witnesses about the limits of their memory capabilities. In addition, as a defense attorney Patricia is motivated to make the witnesses "slip-up" or even distort their memories of the events her client is being accused of.
-Patricia is cross-examining an eyewitness who seems overconfident in his story.What could Patricia do to reduce his overconfidence


A) Ask him to list reasons on why his story may not be 100% accurate.
B) Be very aggressive towards him when asking him questions.
C) Insult the eyewitness and question his memory.
D) Ask him to rate his confidence and explain why he feels so confident.

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