Within the appellate context, the legal doctrine known as the "plain error rule" permits appellate courts to
A) gloss over obvious errors that had no impact on the outcome of a criminal trial.
B) correct errors that were obvious to the trial judge and to the prosecution and defense attorneys but were not corrected earlier.
C) reduce the harsh impact of trial error and omission by the trial attorneys to which a defendant is otherwise bound.
D) correct significant legal errors that, left uncorrected, would otherwise severely undermine the integrity of the lower court's judicial proceedings.
E) answers C and D are both correct responses.
E
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