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Who judges? : designing jury systems in Japan, East Asia, and Europe
\"The delivery of justice is a core function of the modern state. The recent introduction of jury/lay judge systems for criminal trials in Japan, South Korea, Spain, and perhaps soon Taiwan represents a potentially major reform of this core function, shifting decision making authority from professional judges to ordinary citizens. But the four countries chose to empower their citizens to markedly different degrees. Why? Who Judges? is the first book to offer a systematic account for why different countries design their new jury/lay judge systems in very different ways. Drawing on detailed theoretical analysis, original case studies, and content analysis of fifty years of Japanese parliamentary debates, the book reveals that the relative power of 'new left'-oriented political parties explains the different magnitudes of reform in the four countries. Rieko Kage's vital new study opens up an exciting new area of research for comparative politics and socio-legal studies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Barrett: Trump jurors have an 'amazing responsibility'
On April 18th’s The Trump Trials:Sidebar podcast, national security reporter Devlin Barrett previews the unprecedented nature of the N.Y. 'Hush Money' trial.
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Jury Decision Making
While jury decision making has received considerable attention from social scientists, there have been few efforts to systematically pull together all the pieces of this research. In Jury Decision Making, Dennis J. Devine examines over 50 years of research on juries and offers a \"big picture\" overview of the field. The volume summarizes existing theories of jury decision making and identifies what we have learned about jury behavior, including the effects of specific courtroom practices, the nature of the trial, the characteristics of the participants, and the evidence itself.Making use of those foundations, Devine offers a new integrated theory of jury decision making that addresses both individual jurors and juries as a whole and discusses its ramifications for the courts. Providing a unique combination of broad scope, extensive coverage of the empirical research conducted over the last half century, and theory advancement, this accessible and engaging volumeoffers \"one-stop shopping\" for scholars, students, legal professionals, and those who simply wish to better understand how well the jury system works.
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Is it dangerous to be on a high-profile jury?
On April 18, The Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin, and James Hohmann stressed the importance of keeping juror identities hidden from the public.
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The runaway jury
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important, why?
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Competition Juries as Intercultural Spaces
In this article, design competitions, as they are practiced in Canada, are understood as devices that allow the study of interdisciplinary and intercultural dimensions of architecture. From the construction of the brief to the selection of the winning project, competitions are exemplary platforms for communicating design values. For example, competitor project proposals, which comprise many qualities, including constructive, material, and even political, represent the priorities of each design team, in the form of a place. Jurors debate each of these qualities through their own expertise. In their search for excellence, the competition jury is then an exemplar contact zone. By examining the various documents produced in this process, we can uncover the value systems of the many stakeholders. Observations of jury deliberations and analyses of jury reports can help expose how the diversity of jurors influences the selection of the winning project. Furthermore, in a contemporary context where environmental design is at the forefront, this diversity is especially interesting to study. An environmental expert’s evaluation of quantitative eco-measurements is very different from an architect’s judgment of spatial qualities and experiences. The focus of this article is to understand how such a variety of jurors influences the competition outcome.
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What does a juror do?
The Constitution of the United States lists many rights for citizens. A fair trial by jury is one of those rights. A jury is made up of people from the place where the crime happened. These jurors are picked from a pool of citizens. Jurors hear evidence and receive directions from the judge for the case. After hearing the case, jurors decide if a person is guilty or innocent. In some cases, jurors also decide the punishment. This book will explore what it means to be a juror through an inquiry-based approach aligned with C3 standards. --Amazon
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Twenty Million Angry Men
Today, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon's
eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for
banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do
felon-juror exclusion statutes impact convicted felons, jury
systems, and jurisdictions that impose them? Twenty Million
Angry Men provides the first full account of this pervasive
yet invisible form of civic marginalization. Drawing on extensive
research, James M. Binnall challenges the professed rationales for
felon-juror exclusion and highlights the benefits of inclusion as
they relate to criminal desistance at the individual and community
levels. Ultimately, this forward-looking book argues that when it
comes to serving as a juror, a history of involvement in the
criminal justice system is an asset, not a liability.
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