Teacher: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. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: this instruction. However, the court later stated that it had allowed the aforementioned questionin ounsel argued in his closing argument the very point which he contends he was denied the opportunity to make that Elliott's willingness to take a lie detector test demonstrated a lack of consciousness of guilt. The Commonwealth argues that the PCRA court's denial of relief on this ineffectiveness claim is correct because the underlying claim of trial court error is meritless. First, it argues that this Court has already ruled that testimony regarding a defendant's purported willingness to undergo a polygraph examination is inadmissible for the same reasons that a defendant's refusal to take such test is inadmissible. Commonwealth v. Saun ders, 386 Pa. 149, 125 A.2d 442, 445-46 (1956) (<HOLDING>). The Commonwealth further submits that
Holding statements: (A) holding that when counsel denied the petitioner the right to appeal neither the strickland prejudice prong nor the harmlesserror test is appropriate (B) holding that it is not (C) holding that expert testimony should not be admitted as to a matter that is obviously within the common knowledge of jurors because such testimony almost by definition can be of no assistance (D) holding that an error is plain if it is clear or obvious (E) holding that because a polygraph test is not judicially acceptable it is obvious that neither a professed willingness nor a refusal to submit to such a test should be admitted because a defendants willingness is merely a selfserving act or declaration which obviously could be made without any possible risk
Student:
(E)