The American jury system
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2003.
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| Series: | Contemporary law series.
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Table of 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.