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A Jury Of Your [Redacted]: The Rise And Implications Of Anonymous Juries, Leonardo Mangat
A Jury Of Your [Redacted]: The Rise And Implications Of Anonymous Juries, Leonardo Mangat
Cornell Law Review
Since their relatively recent beginnings in 1977, anonymous juries have been used across a litany of cases: organized crime, terrorism, murder, sports scandals, police killings, and even political corruption. And their use is on the rise. An anonymous jury is a type of jury that a court may empanel in a criminal trial; if one is used, then information that might otherwise identify jurors is withheld from the parties, the public, or some combination thereof, for varying lengths of time.
Though not without its benefits, anonymous juries raise questions regarding a defendant’s presumption of innocence, the public’s right to an …
A Jury Of Your [Redacted]: The Rise And Implications Of Anonymous Juries, Leonardo Mangat
A Jury Of Your [Redacted]: The Rise And Implications Of Anonymous Juries, Leonardo Mangat
Cornell Law Library Prize for Exemplary Student Research Papers
Since their relatively recent beginnings in 1977, when the first completely anonymous jury was empaneled in a federal court in New York, anonymous juries have been used across a litany of cases: organized crime, terrorism, murder, sports scandals, police killings, and even gubernatorial corruption. And their use is on the rise. An anonymous jury is a type of jury that a court may empanel in a criminal trial; if one is used, then information that might otherwise identify jurors is withheld from the parties, the public, or some combination thereof, often for varying lengths of time.
Though not without its …