Problems 15 – 21 are based upon the following scenario: Defe…

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Prоblems 15 – 21 аre bаsed upоn the fоllowing scenаrio: Defendant Dr. Derrick Dessa is on trial for murdering his wife, Vickie.  Dr. Dessa allegedly poisoned his wife by slipping cyanide into her daily calcium capsules. Vickie took one of the cyanide capsules and was fatally poisoned.  At the time the poison began to affect Vickie, she was driving her car to a doctor’s appointment.  She lost control of the car and crashed into a stop sign.  Autopsy results indicated that she was killed by a large dose of cyanide.  Assume that Vickie lived long enough to have a conversation with the nurses in the hospital. After talking about the hospital food, one of the nurses asks Vickie “Are you feeling better?  What happened to you?”  Vickie replies “Yes, I’m feeling better now.  I’m starting to think that Dr. Dessa tried to poison me with that pill he gave me yesterday.  Thank God I threw it up. Boy, you think you know someone, and look what happens.”  For purposes of this question, assume Vickie then drifted off to sleep.  The next morning, she was only semi-conscious, and eventually lapsed into a coma.  Vickie lived five more weeks before dying of cyanide poisoning.  In Dr. Dessa’s murder trial, Vickie’s statement to her nurse about the pill is:

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