You are a defense attorney defending a client against a murder charge. your client is the former boyfriend of the victim and it has been established by several witnesses that the breakup was not a pleasant one. your client was identified as a suspect from the very beginning. during the trial, the prosecution presented a witness who claimed to overhear your client praying for forgiveness in his holding cell. the prosecution also presented the murder weapon, which was a softball bat with your client’s fingerprint on the handle. your client was convicted. question: you attempted to convince the jury that the presence of the fingerprints did not mean anything – it was his bat and he had used it in a softball game recently. you argued that the detectives investigating the murder suspected your client right away because he was the victim’s ex-boyfriend and they automatically interpreted any evidence in a way that agreed with their suspicion. this is an example of: