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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Verdicts"”.
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Black Sheep Effects on Juror Verdicts
… the interaction between mock juror race and the verdicts delivered upon the defendants. However, mock jurors found their fairness and confidence in their verdicts to be high. This research will aid those in the legal system when considering implicit bias in the courtroom.</p>
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Attorney advertising: The effect on juror perceptions and verdicts
… advertising, it does not affect their trial verdicts unless jurors are actually confronted with a plaintiff's lawyer who advertises on television; then, jurors tend to vote for the defense. There is strong sentiment that the law should be changed to limit jury awards. Advertising lawyers …
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Expert witness testimony in jury verdicts when battered women kill
… to (a) explore the relationship between jury verdicts when traumatic brain injury expert testimony is provided and (b) examine the relationship between the verdicts when battered women syndrome expert witness testimony is provided, in Rowan University undergraduate students (N = 100). Students …
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Does expert evidence pertaining to battered woman syndrome influence juror verdicts?
… 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 attack, the …
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Effects of joint trials on the proportion of guilty verdicts assigned to defendants
… in the proportion of guilty/not-guilty verdicts across one, two, and three defendant trial conditions when all defendants involved were charged with the same offence (assault). It was concluded that having multiple defendants in a trial was not, on its own, biasing against the first or …
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Do age and media type influence the effects of pretrial publicity on verdicts?
… during the trial. This study compared jury verdicts among older and younger jurors when PTP was presented in different media formats (text vs video). Results suggest both older and younger jurors tend to misattribute PTP information as trial information, which leads to more guilty verdicts. …
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VERDICTS: Visual Exploratory Requirements Discovery and Injection for Comprehension and Testing of Software
… tools for visual exploratory software analysis. VERDICTS combines exploratory testing, tracing, visualization, dynamic discovery and injection of requirements specifications into a live quick-feedback cycle, without recompilation or restart of the system under test. This supports discovery and …
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The Impact of Trial Consultants on Perceptions of Procedural Justice and Juror Verdicts: An Empirical Investigation
… the balance of trial consultants and juror verdicts in cases where the evidence is ambiguous. Two hundred fifty-five jury-eligible individuals recruited from the participant pool of the psychology and management departments at Baruch College were asked to complete three questionnaires …
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The Parallel Jury: Describing Its Processes and Procedures and Evaluating Its Effectiveness in Predicting Jury Verdicts
… methods, like trial simulations to predict jury verdicts (Bornstein & Kleynhans, 2018; Wiener & Bornstein, 2011). However, in legal practice there has been significant unease about the ability of jury research to generalize findings to actual trial settings (Ross, 2023, 2024). What is needed is a …
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Personal Beliefs and Public Print: The Influence of Pre-Existing Attitudes and Pretrial Publicity Information on Final Verdicts
… instructions increased guilt ratings and guilty verdicts among participants receiving confession PTP. Participants receiving resisting arrest PTP and specific instructions assigned higher guilt ratings than participants receiving neutral PTP and specific instructions. Finally, among participants …
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Lay decision-making and the insanity defense: The impact of evidence, judicial instructions, case construals, and attitudes on attributions of criminal responsibility
… little of the variance in the predeliberation verdicts. Differences in judicial instructions and verdict form accounted for more of the verdict variance, with the guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) form significantly reducing the probability of Guilty and NGRI verdicts in comparison with …
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An exploration of the impact of LGBT+ representative mock-juries on mock-juror bias and guilty verdicts in transphobic hate crime cases
… base offences and that half of the not-guilty verdicts were due to the sentence maxima being deemed as too high. Study Two evidenced the extra influence of the jury foreperson on participants’ verdicts. Furthermore, participant transprejudice levels towards the transgender victim were …
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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) a PhD …
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Compounding Prejudice? Investigating Canadian Mock Juror Perceptions of Victim Race and Work in the Sex Trade
… (sex worker, non-sex worker) affected mock juror verdicts in a first-degree murder trial. Although victim race and involvement in sex work did not significantly affect juror verdicts, victim blame was affected by stereotypes about Indigenous women and sex workers, as well as negative attitudes …
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A study of the juror interaction process in criminal trials
… likely than active low status persons to change verdicts.</p> <p>No statistical relationship exists between influence attempts and sex. Males, however, do appear to change verdicts less often than females. Nor is there support for the hypothesis that high occupational status jurors (i.e., …
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Race and ethnicity influences on mock-juror evaluations of eyewitness testimony.
… but did not differ from White mock jurors in verdicts or sentencing decisions. Participants' political beliefs and confidence in the criminal justice system were associated with lengthier prison sentence recommendations, and system confidence was also associated with more guilty verdicts and …
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Objection! Perspective-taking in the court: How juror's instructions affect empathy, culpability, and verdict decisions
… for a crime, and guilty or not guilty verdicts. A pilot study using a college student sample and a main study using an online sample from Prolific.com aimed to answer whether perspective-taking increased empathy, and decreased ratings of culpability and guilty verdicts for the crime. It …
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The impact of gruesome evidence on mock juror decision making : the role of evidence characteristics and emotional response
… nor testimony had an effect on mock jurors verdicts or sentence decisions. However, the manipulation check failed to indicate that participants perceived the evidence differently in terms of gruesomeness. Experiment 2 was designed to address whether inducing specific emotions in participants …
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