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The Langugage And Culture (Not To Say Race) Of Peremptory Challenges, Sheri Lynn Johnson
The Langugage And Culture (Not To Say Race) Of Peremptory Challenges, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Peremptory Challenges: Free Strikes No More, H. Patrick Furman
Peremptory Challenges: Free Strikes No More, H. Patrick Furman
Publications
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Some Worries About Sentencing Guidelines, William T. Pizzi
Some Worries About Sentencing Guidelines, William T. Pizzi
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Morgan V. Illinois: An Attempt To Provide Equality In The Selection Of Capital Sentencing Jurors, Tracy A. Peterson
Morgan V. Illinois: An Attempt To Provide Equality In The Selection Of Capital Sentencing Jurors, Tracy A. Peterson
Villanova Law Review
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Rights Held Hostage: Race, Ideology And The Peremptory Challenge, Kenneth B. Nunn
Rights Held Hostage: Race, Ideology And The Peremptory Challenge, Kenneth B. Nunn
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article addresses the Supreme Court's application of the Equal Protection Clause to the selection of juries in criminal trials. Focusing on Black-white relations, it takes the position that efforts to eliminate racial discrimination in jury selection are successful only to the extent that they also eliminate the result of the discrimination- racial subjugation of Blacks through the criminal justice process. By this measure, the Supreme Court's recent jury selection cases are an abject failure.
Some Steps Between Attitudes And Verdicts, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Some Steps Between Attitudes And Verdicts, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
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Most research that has attempted to predict verdict preferences on the basis of stable juror characteristics, such as attitudes and personality traits, has found that individual differences among jurors are not very useful predictors, accounting for only a small proportion of the variance in verdict choices. Some commentators have therefore concluded that verdicts are overwhelmingly accounted for by "the weight of the evidence," and that differences among jurors have negligible effects. But there is a paradox here: In most cases the weight of the evidence is insufficient to produce firstballot unanimity in the jury (Hans & Vidmar, 1986; Hastie, Penrod, …