Author: New South Wales. Law Reform Commission
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780734726193
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
It is generally considered that the requirement of unanimity results in more hung juries than does the alternative system of requiring only a majority of jurors to agree on a verdict. What constitutes a majority differs between jurisdictions that have embraced the concept, and may also depend on the type of offence being tried. This Report examines arguments for and against preserving the unanimity rule.
Majority Verdicts
Author: New South Wales. Law Reform Commission
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780734726193
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
It is generally considered that the requirement of unanimity results in more hung juries than does the alternative system of requiring only a majority of jurors to agree on a verdict. What constitutes a majority differs between jurisdictions that have embraced the concept, and may also depend on the type of offence being tried. This Report examines arguments for and against preserving the unanimity rule.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780734726193
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
It is generally considered that the requirement of unanimity results in more hung juries than does the alternative system of requiring only a majority of jurors to agree on a verdict. What constitutes a majority differs between jurisdictions that have embraced the concept, and may also depend on the type of offence being tried. This Report examines arguments for and against preserving the unanimity rule.
Simple Majority Rule for Jury Trials
Author: Edward P. Schwartz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jury
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jury
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Six Man Juries, Majority Verdicts
Author: Hans Zeisel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jury
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jury
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Majority Jury Verdicts
Author: Gareth Griffith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731059454
Category : Jury
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731059454
Category : Jury
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
The Supreme Court against the Criminal Jury
Author: John A. Murley
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739136232
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
The Supreme Court against the Criminal Jury: Social Science and the Palladium of Liberty is an analysis of the United States Supreme Court decisions in what has come to be called the “jury-size” and “jury-decision rule” cases. In Williams v. Florida (1970) and Ballew v. Georgia (1978), a majority of the Supreme Court looked to history, empirical studies, and functional analysis to support its claim that there was “no discernible difference” between the verdicts of juries of six and juries of twelve. In the process the Court also decided that the number twelve was an historical accident and that the twelve-member jury was not an essential ingredient of trial by jury. Two years later, the Court, following essentially the same line of reasoning used in Williams, decided in the companion cases Apodaca v. Oregon (1972) and Johnson v. Louisiana (1972) that defendants were as well served with juries that reached verdicts by a majority vote of 11-1,10-2 and 9-3 as they were with unanimous jury verdicts. In these cases the Supreme Court rejected the centuries old common law view that the unanimous jury verdict was an essential element of trial by jury. With these four decisions, the criminal jury as it had been known for more than six hundred years under the common law and the Constitution was in principle abandoned. We critique these decisions from the perspective of unreliable jury studies and the impact of these decision on jury nullification.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739136232
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
The Supreme Court against the Criminal Jury: Social Science and the Palladium of Liberty is an analysis of the United States Supreme Court decisions in what has come to be called the “jury-size” and “jury-decision rule” cases. In Williams v. Florida (1970) and Ballew v. Georgia (1978), a majority of the Supreme Court looked to history, empirical studies, and functional analysis to support its claim that there was “no discernible difference” between the verdicts of juries of six and juries of twelve. In the process the Court also decided that the number twelve was an historical accident and that the twelve-member jury was not an essential ingredient of trial by jury. Two years later, the Court, following essentially the same line of reasoning used in Williams, decided in the companion cases Apodaca v. Oregon (1972) and Johnson v. Louisiana (1972) that defendants were as well served with juries that reached verdicts by a majority vote of 11-1,10-2 and 9-3 as they were with unanimous jury verdicts. In these cases the Supreme Court rejected the centuries old common law view that the unanimous jury verdict was an essential element of trial by jury. With these four decisions, the criminal jury as it had been known for more than six hundred years under the common law and the Constitution was in principle abandoned. We critique these decisions from the perspective of unreliable jury studies and the impact of these decision on jury nullification.
Judging the Jury
Author: Valerie P. Hans
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1489964630
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1489964630
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Non-unanimous Jury Verdicts
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Majority Jury Verdicts in Civil Cases
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The American Jury
Author: Harry Kalven
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Affordable Housing in NSW
Author: John Bernard Wilkinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731317905
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731317905
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description