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An Empirical Study Of Six And Twelve-Member Jury Decision-Making Processes, Joan B. Kessler
An Empirical Study Of Six And Twelve-Member Jury Decision-Making Processes, Joan B. Kessler
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This article employs the techniques of the social sciences in testing a legal proposition. After setting forth the hypotheses and methodology utilized by the experiment discussed herein, it presents the results obtained by examining the deliberations of different-sized juries concerning the same civil litigation. This article does not purport to be definitive; it does, however, attempt to indicate one methodology of interdisciplinary research which can be undertaken and the utility of this research to both the social sciences and the legal profession.
Six-Member And Twelve-Member Juries: An Empirical Study Of Trial Results, Lawrence R. Mills
Six-Member And Twelve-Member Juries: An Empirical Study Of Trial Results, Lawrence R. Mills
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The most convincing basis for criticism of the Supreme Court's conclusion that there is "no discernible difference" between the results reached by the six-member juries and those reached by the twelve-member juries would be empirical data suggesting a contrary conclusion. A recent study by the Institute of Judicial Administration comparing twelve-member and six-member juries in over 650 civil cases in New Jersey courts disclosed less than a two percentage-point difference between the respective percentages of verdicts rendered for plaintiffs by the two different-sized juries. The same study seemed to indicate that the damage awards in twelve-member jury cases were higher …