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The American jury system / Randolph N. Jonakait.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jonakait, Randolph N.
- Series:
- Contemporary law series.
- Yale contemporary law series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jury--United States.
- Jury.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How are juries selected in the United States? What forces influence juries in making their decisions? Are some cases simply beyond the ability of juries to decide? How useful is the entire jury system?In this important and accessible book, a prominent expert on constitutional law examines these and other issues concerning the American jury system. Randolph N. Jonakait describes the historical and social pressures that have driven the development of the jury system; contrasts the American jury system to the legal process in other countries; reveals subtle changes in the popular view of juries; examines how the news media, movies, and books portray and even affect the system; and discusses the empirical data that show how juries actually operate and what influences their decisions. Jonakait endorses the jury system in both civil and criminal cases, spelling out the important social role juries play in legitimizing and affirming the American justice system.
- Contents:
- Overview
- Checking abuses of power
- Hammering out facts
- Juries and community values
- Abide the issue
- Jury size and jury performance
- Unanimity and hung juries
- The vicinage
- The most diverse of our democratic bodies
- Challenges for cause
- Preemptory challenges
- "Scientific" jury selection
- The adversary system
- Presentation of evidence
- Instructions
- Jury verdicts and the primacy of evidence
- Jury trials of complex cases
- Jury nullification
- The finality of verdicts
- Reform.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-330) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611730215
- 9781281730213
- 1281730211
- 9780300129403
- 0300129408
- OCLC:
- 952732095
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