Majority Jury Verdicts

Author : New South Wales. Law Reform Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780734726193
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Majority Verdicts written by New South Wales. Law Reform Commission and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Edward P. Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simple Majority Rule for Jury Trials written by Edward P. Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans Zeisel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Man Juries, Majority Verdicts written by Hans Zeisel and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John A. Murley
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739136232
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Supreme Court against the Criminal Jury written by John A. Murley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Non-unanimous Jury Verdicts written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raoul Berger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674444782
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impeachment written by Raoul Berger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little understood yet great power of impeachment lodged in the Congress is dissected in this text through history by Raoul Berger, a leading scholar on the subject. He sheds new light on whether impeachment is limited to indictable crimes, on whether there is jurisdiction to impeach for misconduct outside office, and on whether impeachment must precede indictment. Berger also finds firm footing in contesting the views of one-time Judge Robert Bork and President Nixon's lawyer, James St Clair.

Author : Harry Kalven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Jury written by Harry Kalven and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gareth Griffith
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ISBN 13 : 9780731059454
Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book Majority Jury Verdicts written by Gareth Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Aiello
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807172537
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jim Crow’s Last Stand written by Thomas Aiello and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana’s nonunanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes: a legal oddity. On the surface, it was meant to speed convictions. In practice, the law funneled many convicts—especially African Americans—into Louisiana’s burgeoning convict lease system. Although it faced multiple legal challenges through the years, the law endured well after convict leasing had ended. Few were aware of its existence, let alone its original purpose. In fact, the original publication of Jim Crow’s Last Stand was one of the first attempts to call attention to the historical injustice caused by this law. This updated edition of Jim Crow’s Last Stand unpacks the origins of the statute in Bourbon Louisiana, traces its survival through the civil rights era, and ends with the successful effort to overturn the nonunanimous jury practice, a policy that officially went into effect on January 1, 2019.

Author : Valerie P. Hans
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1489964630
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judging the Jury written by Valerie P. Hans and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: