TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision.  Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. You should write an incorrect option. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
PROBLEM: state witnesses regarding their credibility during the course of the trial in chief. Angela Sweat had negotiated with state prosecution involving armed robbery charges, the facts of the plea agreement for impeachment was not permitted by the trial court. This witness was the sole evidence against the petitioner and had the jury known of her motive to lie they would have found me not guilty of the armed robbery charges. This was a denial of my right to a fair trial under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and the jury would have found me not guilty. Generally, federal courts should not review a state trial judge’s rulings with respect to the admissibility of evidence. Shaw v. Boney, 695 F.2d 528, 530 (11th Cir.1983). Even if the trial court’ h Cir.1984) (<HOLDING>). Evidentiary rulings are within the broad 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that insanity is a complete defense to the criminal charge (B) holding that defense counsel was not constitutionally ineffective for presenting a diminished capacity defense as opposed to a defense of legal insanity (C) holding that denigrating insanity defense was inappropriate (D) holding that where the sole defense was insanity excluded testimony was material a crucial critical and highly significant factor (E) holding that a defendants insanity due to voluntary intoxication is not a defense

SOLUTION: holding that insanity is a complete defense to the criminal charge

PROBLEM: prejudice. Common v. W. Suburban Hosp. Med. Ctr., 301 Ill.App.3d 939, 235 Ill.Dec. 158, 704 N.E.2d 731, 738-39 (1998) (emphasis added) (citations omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted). We quoted Common and echoed its sentiment in Sherrod v. Lingle, 223 F.3d 605, 614 (7th Cir.2000), where we held that a district court’s failure to permit a plaintiff to amend his complaint in order to comply with section 2-622 was an abuse of discretion. Second, although the district court believed that plaintiffs’ counsel should have known to submit an affidavit and report in accordance with section 2-622, it made no specific finding that the failure to do so was in bad faith or an attempt to delay litigation. See Cookson v. Price, 393 Ill.App.3d 549, 333 Ill.Dec. 22, 914 N.E.2d 229, 232 (2009) (<HOLDING>). Further, it did not explain whether or in 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that a complaint that a report was not timely served was not subject to the twentyone day deadline to object to the sufficiency of a report under former section 74351a (B) holding no jurisdiction where appellant argued report was no report because it failed to mention appellant in any substantive way but trial court found report was merely deficient on element of causation as to appellant and granted extension (C) holding that it was error for the trial court to refuse to permit plaintiff to amend his complaint to include a new affidavit and report complying with section 2622 where there was no indication that the plaintiffs failure to file the report earlier in the litigation was in bad faith (D) holding that the trial courts failure to dismiss the action to quiet title was error because the plaintiff was not in possession of the land in question but the error was not fatal to the claim because the superior court could sua sponte amend the pleadings to include an action in ejectment (E) holding that rule was not violated where officer stated he made a report but was unable to find it because there was no report to tender to counsel

SOLUTION: holding that a complaint that a report was not timely served was not subject to the twentyone day deadline to object to the sufficiency of a report under former section 74351a

PROBLEM: by the Eleventh Amendment But He Has Not Established Qualified Immunity or Immunity Under Noerr-Pen-nington in His Individual Capacity. 1. Hoffman concedes that Markwell cannot be sued for civil damages in his official capacity. Hoffman concedes that the Eleventh Amendment immunizes Markwell from Hoffman’s claim of damages against Markwell in his official capacity as State’s Attorney. See Pl. Resp. to Def. Mot. to Dismiss (d/e 18) at 11-12. However, because Hoffman is also seeking an injunction against Markwell as to his involvement in advising the Board to exclude Hoffman from participation in Board activities, Markwell remains in this lawsuit in his official capacity for the purposes of the claimed injunctive relief. See Ameritech Corp. v. McCann, 297 F.3d 582, 586 (7th Cir.2002) (<HOLDING>) (internal quotations omitted). 2. Markwell is 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that punitive damages are not recoverable against a state official sued in his or her official capacity (B) holding that a party can sue a state officer in his or her official capacity to enjoin prospective action that would violate federal law (C) holding that a suit against a state official in his or her official capacity is a suit against the state itself and not cognizable under  1983 (D) holding that the acts of a corporate officer done in his or her official capacity are acts of the corporation (E) holding that a prisoner can under rluipa pursue nominal damages against a state officer in her official capacity

SOLUTION:
holding that punitive damages are not recoverable against a state official sued in his or her official capacity