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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Juror"”.
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Juror Evaluation of Eyewitness Evidence
… came from jury trials. These statistics suggest jurors lack understanding of what affects eyewitness’ memories and decisions. The current study assessed general knowledge of eyewitness procedures as well as mock jurors' evaluation of a hypothetical case that varied in the use of two lineup …
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Juror Personality And Legal Blame
… at the relationship between self-monitoring and jurors' view of liability in a civil accident case. Some studies looking at belief systems and selected personality traits and have found conflicting results on whether or not you can determine which way the juror will vote on a case. Even fewer …
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Black Sheep Effects on Juror Verdicts
… of the black sheep. Participants acted as mock jurors and chose a verdict for the defendant based on a vignette followed by a photo of the defendant. Race, the commonality shared between the defendants and mock jurors, acted as an automatic group divider. Participants analyzed were of either the …
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Same action, different reaction? Exploring the impact of legal profession, defendant race, and prospective juror race on perceptions of juror excusals
… attorneys can no longer remove prospective jurors from being considered for a jury without challenging for cause) while expanding judges’ powers to stand aside potential jurors, particularly in efforts to facilitate jury representativeness and improve the public’s confidence in the …
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The Influence of Social Media on Juror Decision-Making
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Mock juror perceptions of juvenile defendants in adult court
The focus of this study is on individual juror's perceptions of juveniles that have been remanded to the adult court system for trial. Jurors are expected to be harsher on juveniles tried in adult court than they would be on adults who committed the same crime. Participants recruited from students …
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Attorney advertising: The effect on juror perceptions and verdicts
… the effect of attorney television advertising on jurors. Southern Nevada jurors who had served on personal injury and malpractice trials were sent survey questionnaires designed to elicit juror attitudes about attorneys and attorney advertising. The response rate was 53.3%; The major finding was …
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Battered woman syndrome: Juror common understanding and expert testimony
… what is the impact of expert testimony on juror decision-making in a simulated battered woman's homicide case? Do prior knowledge of domestic violence and beliefs about the acceptability of woman-battering affect receptivity to expert testimony or influence the decision-making process?
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Are jurors persuaded by the "concreteness of truth?" : the impact of eyewitness concreteness, juror instructions, and visualization on juror decision making.
… of eyewitness use of linguistic concreteness on juror decision making. Mock jurors read a summary of an ambiguous criminal case that included a concrete or abstract version of an eyewitness's testimony. When jurors received only these materials (Experiment 1), those who received the concrete …
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A study of the juror interaction process in criminal trials
<p>Four hundred and fifty-four jurors who served on forty-three criminal trials in Syracuse, New York, were sent questionnaires designed to elicit information concerning their deliberative behavior. One hundred and ninety-four jurors representing 42.6 percent of the total sample returned the survey …
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Knowledge updating in jurors : cognitive load affects juror decision making.
Mock jurors read a trial summary describing the armed robbery of a convenience store and rendered a verdict. Then, half of the jurors viewed an exculpatory videotape of the robbery; the remaining jurors completed an unrelated task. All jurors voted again. Those who watched the video were less …
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Does expert evidence pertaining to battered woman syndrome influence juror verdicts?
… to Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) influences juror verdicts the legal requirements of self defence (imminence, proportionality and an attempt to retreat from the situation) are generally not met in cases where battered women kill their partner: The killings do not immediately follow the …
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Juror Bias in a Mock Case Involving a Defendant With Kleptomania
<p>Jurors are instructed to only consider legal factors when making verdict and sentencing recommendations, but research has shown that biases can still affect these decisions. For instance, research has found that jurors can be influenced by both the type of defendant mental illness (Higgins, …
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The Effects of Variations of Victim Impact Statements on Juror Bias
… has found an effect of these variations on mock juror bias in capital trials. The current study examined if variations such as changing the strength of emotion, crime type, and including sentencing recommendation within a VIS affects the judgements of mock jurors. The results showed the sexual …
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Race and ethnicity influences on mock-juror evaluations of eyewitness testimony.
… to examine their influence on mock jurors' decisions in a criminal case. In Experiment 1, Black mock jurors rated the testimony of an eyewitness as more credible and more important to their decisions when the eyewitness and defendant were of the same race, while White mock jurors …
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Mock Juror Understanding of Complex Testimony: the Flynn Effect in Atkins Cases
… of their testimony would influence mock jurors' diagnostic determinations. Undergraduate students were exposed to testimony on the Flynn effect (a statistical phenomenon relevant to IQ scores and ID determinations) that varied in complexity. Credentials of the testifying defense expert …
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The effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdict: psychiatry versus psychology
… the effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdicts. We, further, assessed whether there would be a difference in the relative influence of MDs and PhD expert witnesses. Undergraduate and graduate students served as mock jurors and were presented with an insanity case which either (a) …
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Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making
… information about a criminal trial can influence jurors’ attitudes, these effects do not always translate into informed case decisions (Holmgren & Fordham, 2011; Kim et al., 2009). This research aimed to answer the following question: does exposure to commentary on the risk factors of wrongful …
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