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In State v. Kelly, the court held that expert testimony about battered woman’s syndrome (BWS) should not have been excluded at trial because:

Kidnappers capture a group of five hostages, lock them in an old basement, and threaten to kill one every 12 hours until their demands are met.  Twelve hours later, their demands are not met and they kill one hostage as promised.  A second hostage is killed at the end of the next 12-hour period.  Three hours after the killing of the second hostage, one of the remaining three hostages finds a knife in the basement and uses it to kill the kidnappers.  A self-defense claim by the hostage who killed the kidnappers might fail for lack of:

Rate the evidence that is used in the passage below. Consider the relevance, reliability, and accuracy of the evidence as it relates to the topic provided by the first sentence. Feminists should take a lesson from my parents—they don’t like loud music and won’t have it in their house, but they don’t go around saying it’s harmful to everyone or trying to prevent others from listening to it. Ever since feminists began attacking our popular culture, the moral foundation of our society has been weakened; the divorce rate, for example, continues to rise.

Look at the passage below. What changes need to be made to the format to make it MLA formatted?

The doctrine announced in the Pinkerton case expands the reach of conspiracy law because:

Solve the initial value problem $$\style{font-size:18pt}{\displaystyle \frac{dy}{dx} + (1+y^2)\, e^{4x} =0}$$ with $$\style{font-size:18pt}{y(0) = 0.}$$

Use the definition of the Laplace transform to calculate $$\style{font-size:18pt}{{\cal L}\left[e^{3t}\right].}$$For what values of $$\style{font-size:18pt}{s}$$ does this transform exist? Justify your answer based on your calculations. 

In People v. Lauria, the Court held that:

A student finds a news article about a recent event that relates to their discussion on Jonathan Swift. The student copies the quote directly out of the news article but doesn’t use quotations or a parentheses tag.

A student finds a news article about a recent event that relates to their discussion on Jonathan Swift. The student introduces a quote from the news article with “According to WKRG.”