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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"jury duty"”.
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Understanding How Undergraduate Students and Seniors Perceive Jury Duty and Child Witnesses
… little research examining their perceptions of jury duty and their jury behaviours. The present study examined seniors as jurors to investigate how they respond to calls for jury duty (i.e., their willingness) and whether they are capable jurors in terms of detecting dishonest testimony (i.e., …
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Understanding How Jurors Award Civil Damages: A Test of Affect Control Theory
… eligible mock jurors. Citizens reporting for jury duty in a large metropolitan county on five days when the study was conducted were invited to participate. Scenarios were created that varied both case facts and witness emotion during trial testimony. Results indicate that Affect Control …
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Misguided Instructions: Do Jurors Accurately Understand the Law in Death Penalty Trials?
… individuals’ right to trial by an impartial jury. However, empirical research indicates that the jury system is flawed, especially regarding judicial sentencing instructions. More specifically, jurors frequently misunderstand or misinterpret State patterned instructions. On a more encouraging …
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Are juries representative? An examination of the representativeness of jury panels in Hamilton County Tennessee
… a defendant has the right to a trial by jury composed of his or her peers. The intent is for the chosen jurors to be representative of the defendant‟s community. This study examined whether the jury panels in State Court in Hamilton County, Tennessee are representative of the community. A …
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Mental disorder labelling as an extralegal variable in mock jury deliberations
… about the victim, crime and defendant in a mock jury setting, as well as investigating mock juror gender differences. A representative sample of people eligible for jury duty in Western Australia viewed a video vignette depicting a trial, in which the mental disorder label (no label, …
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A Mixed Method Investigation of the Factors that Influence Juror Interpretation of Forensic Science Testimony Presented for the Prosecution in Nine Homicide Trials in the United States
… of the circumstances of a given case. In a jury trial, it is the responsibility of the jury to listen to, assimilate, comprehend and to place the appropriate weight on the expert testimony in their final decision making.<br/><br/>Knowledge of how juries comprehend forensic science evidence …