Practice question
A judge assumes an uneducated witness is necessarily dishonest and treats a professionally qualified witness as automatically truthful, without examining either account. He defends this as an efficient social classification. Which is best?
- Education conclusively determines credibility under Canon V
- The stereotype conflicts with equality and individualized assessment
- Efficiency authorizes discriminatory stereotypes
- Every educated person must instead be presumed dishonest
- Only the witness’s wealth should decide the question
Legal references
- 2025 CJCA, Canon V Sections 1-2: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/11/100836
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