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The American jury system [electronic resource] / Randolph N. Jonakait.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Contemporary law seriesPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2003.Description: xxv, 346 pISBN:
  • 0300093950 (C : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 347.73/752 21
LOC classification:
  • KF8972 .J66 2003eb
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Contents:
Overview -- Checking abuses of power -- Hammering out facts -- Juries and community values -- Abide the issue -- Jury size and jury performance -- Unanimity and hung juries -- The vicinage -- The most diverse of our democratic bodies -- Challenges for cause -- Preemptory challenges -- "Scientific" jury selection -- The adversary system -- Presentation of evidence -- Instructions -- Jury verdicts and the primacy of evidence -- Jury trials of complex cases -- Jury nullification -- The finality of verdicts -- Reform.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-330) and index.

Overview -- Checking abuses of power -- Hammering out facts -- Juries and community values -- Abide the issue -- Jury size and jury performance -- Unanimity and hung juries -- The vicinage -- The most diverse of our democratic bodies -- Challenges for cause -- Preemptory challenges -- "Scientific" jury selection -- The adversary system -- Presentation of evidence -- Instructions -- Jury verdicts and the primacy of evidence -- Jury trials of complex cases -- Jury nullification -- The finality of verdicts -- Reform.

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