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Author: New South Wales. Law Reform Commission Publisher: ISBN: 9780734726193 Category : Criminal procedure Languages : en Pages : 100
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It is generally considered that the requirement of unanimity results in more hung juries than does the alternative system of requiring only a majority of jurors to agree on a verdict. What constitutes a majority differs between jurisdictions that have embraced the concept, and may also depend on the type of offence being tried. This Report examines arguments for and against preserving the unanimity rule.
Author: New South Wales. Law Reform Commission Publisher: ISBN: 9780734726193 Category : Criminal procedure Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
It is generally considered that the requirement of unanimity results in more hung juries than does the alternative system of requiring only a majority of jurors to agree on a verdict. What constitutes a majority differs between jurisdictions that have embraced the concept, and may also depend on the type of offence being tried. This Report examines arguments for and against preserving the unanimity rule.
Author: Neil Vidmar Publisher: Prometheus Books ISBN: 1615929878 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 428
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This monumental and comprehensive volume reviews more than 50 years of empirical research on civil and criminal juries and returns a verdict that strongly supports the jury system.
Author: Dennis J. Devine Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814725228 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 286
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While jury decision making has received considerable attention from social scientists, there have been few efforts to systematically pull together all the pieces of this research. In Jury Decision Making, Dennis J. Devine examines over 50 years of research on juries and offers a "big picture" overview of the field. The volume summarizes existing theories of jury decision making and identifies what we have learned about jury behavior, including the effects of specific courtroom practices, the nature of the trial, the characteristics of the participants, and the evidence itself. Making use of those foundations, Devine offers a new integrated theory of jury decision making that addresses both individual jurors and juries as a whole and discusses its ramifications for the courts. Providing a unique combination of broad scope, extensive coverage of the empirical research conducted over the last half century, and theory advancement, this accessible and engaging volume offers "one-stop shopping" for scholars, students, legal professionals, and those who simply wish to better understand how well the jury system works.
Author: Stéphanie Novak Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139917102 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 271
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This book presents the most complete set of analytical, normative, and historical discussions of majority decision making to date. One chapter critically addresses the social-choice approach to majority decisions, whereas another presents an alternative to that approach. Extensive case studies discuss majority voting in the choice of religion in early modern Switzerland, majority voting in nested assemblies such as the French Estates-General and the Federal Convention, majority voting in federally organized countries, qualified majority voting in the European Union Council of Ministers, and majority voting on juries. Other chapters address the relation between majority decisions and cognitive diversity, the causal origin of majority decisions, and the pathologies of majority decision making. Two chapters, finally, discuss the counter-majoritarian role of courts that exercise judicial review. The editorial Introduction surveys conceptual, causal, and normative issues that arise in the theory and practice of majority decisions.
Author: Raoul Berger Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674444782 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 416
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The little understood yet great power of impeachment lodged in the Congress is dissected in this text through history by Raoul Berger, a leading scholar on the subject. He sheds new light on whether impeachment is limited to indictable crimes, on whether there is jurisdiction to impeach for misconduct outside office, and on whether impeachment must precede indictment. Berger also finds firm footing in contesting the views of one-time Judge Robert Bork and President Nixon's lawyer, James St Clair.
Author: Hiroshi Fukurai Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1489911278 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 270
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In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.
Author: New South Wales. Law Reform Commission Publisher: ISBN: 9780734726803 Category : Instructions to juries Languages : en Pages : 203
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This report is about the directions that judges give to juries in the course of a criminal trail, and particularly at the summing up. These directions are designed to help jurors understand as much of the law and the issues that arise in the case as they need to make proper use of the evidence and to reach a verdict.
Author: New South Wales. Law Reform Commission
Author: New South Wales. Law Reform Commission
Author: Neil Vidmar
Author: Hans Zeisel
Author: Harry Kalven
Author: Dennis J. Devine
Author: Stéphanie Novak
Author: United States. Department of Justice
Author: Raoul Berger
Author: Hiroshi Fukurai
Author: New South Wales. Law Reform Commission