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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"jury verdicts"”.
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Expert witness testimony in jury verdicts when battered women kill
… were 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). …
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The Parallel Jury: Describing Its Processes and Procedures and Evaluating Its Effectiveness in Predicting Jury Verdicts
<p>Due to skepticism and fear surrounding jury trials, 99% of cases in the U.S. are settled and less than 1% make it to a jury trial (AO Reports, 2023). To address the uncertainty surrounding jury trials, which are nearing extinction, lawyers have relied on methods, like trial simulations to …
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Do age and media type influence the effects of pretrial publicity on verdicts?
… leading to a near impossibility of selecting a jury that can ignore PTP and focus only on facts presented at trial. Previous research has shown participants exposed to negative PTP were more likely to find the defendant guilty, and tended to misattribute PTP as having been evidence presented …
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"""Gentlemen of the Jury"": The Status of Jurors and the Reputation of the Jury in the Midwest, 1830--1860"
… jurors and analyzes the evolving status of the jury as a legal and democratic institution. A quantitative analysis of the economic, professional, social, and political rank of jurors in Sangamon County, Illinois, from 1830-1860, forms the foundation of the investigation. The research also …
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Effects of two procedural factors on group decision-making: Deliberation style and assigned decision rule
… of liability. Under these task requirements, jury deliberation style, analogous to the verdict-driven/evidence-driven distinction by Hastie, Penrod, and Pennington (1983), and official decision rule were manipulated. Consistent with predictions derived from Grofman's (1985) conceptual …