Detailed Instructions: 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.
Q: 519 S.E.2d at 101. 13 . Id. at 153, 519 S.E.2d at 101-02. 14 . Id. at 152-53, 519 S.E.2d at 101-02. 15 . We note that Davis may have wrapped the head of the sledgehammer in a towel. There is no evidence, however, that this lessened the tendency of a five-pound sledgehammer to cause death or great bodily injury if used to strike someone in the head. See State v. Bennett, 328 S.C. 251, 262, 493 S.E.2d 845, 850-51 (1997) ("A deadly weapon is generally defined as any article, instrument or substance which is likely to produce death or great bodily harm."); Commonwealth v. Marks, 704 A.2d 1095, 1100 (Pa.Super.1997) (categorizing a sledgehammer as a deadly weapon when used upon a vital part of the body such as the head). 16 . See State v. Smith, 315 S.C. 547, 550, 446 S.E.2d 411, 413 (1994) (<HOLDING>); State v. Morris, 307 S.C. 480, 484, 415
Holding statements: (A) holding that mere negligence does not implicate the right to due process (B) holding that mere possession of a dangerous weapon is insufficient to support a charge of robbery with a dangerous weapon (C) holding the intentional use of a dangerous instrumentality does not support the allegation of mere criminal negligence (D) holding that the victims negligence is not a defense to criminal conduct (E) holding comparative negligence not defense to intentional tort
A:
(C)