All four selections from the section "Brought Before the Court" explain the actions of the community and the court during the trials. Which option is the STRONGEST Indication that the decisions about guilt or innocence tere based on personal blases rather than evidence?

1. Governor Phipps, in response to Mather's plea and his own wife being questioned for witchcraft, prohibited further arrests, released many accused witches and
dissolved the special court on October 29.

2. All three women were brought before the local judges and interrogated for several days, starting on March 1,1692. Osborned claimed Innocence, as did Good. But Tituba confessed, "The Devil came to me and bid me serve him."

3. Five days later, respected minister Cotton Mather wrote a letter begging the court not to allow spectral evidence - testimony about dreams and visions. The court largely ignored the request.

4. Charges against Martha Corey, a loyal member of the Church in Salem Village, greatly concerned the community, If she could be a witch, then anyone could.