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: evidence of a factual dispute. Initially, Plaintiff testified (and re-affirmed) that the picture looked like Midnight. Manson Dep. 360. Only when pressed about whether he had any reason to doubt the picture's authenticity did Plaintiff voice doubts about the picture. He stated that Midnight had a "[sjhorter nozzle, bigger head, [and] nowhere near that many scar, if he had any." Id. Plaintiff then testified that the pictured animal was not his dog, then hedged again, stating "It might'be, it just don't look like him." Id. at 360-61. In the absence of any independent evidence, Plaintiffs equivocal deposition statements could not prevent a reasonable juror from eonclud ing that the pictures are authentic. See S. Indus., Inc. v. Stone Age Equip., Inc., 12 F.Supp.2d 796, 809 (N.D.Ill.1998) (<HOLDING>). More importantly, the Officers had probable
Holding statements: (A) holding that the uncorroborated testimony of an informant may be sufficient to sustain a conviction (B) holding deposition testimony failed to create fact issue because it was internally inconsistent flatly contradicted by documentary and physical evidence and uncorroborated (C) holding that physicians affidavit created genuine issue of material fact even though it directly contradicted his prior deposition testimony where physician offered a plausible explanation for the change in his testimony (D) holding that an uncorroborated callers tip did not create reasonable suspicion (E) holding that uncorroborated testimony of one witness is sufficient by itself to sustain a conviction
Student:
(B)