Add to ORKGThis Article traces the development of jury sentencing in non-capital felony cases in Virginia and Kentucky, as well as the rejection of jury sentencing in Pennsylvania, in the late eighteenth century. Several of the explanations that modern commentators on jury sentencing have offered for the adoption of jury sentencing are questioned. In Virginia, where party politics may have affected the choice of jury over judge, pockets of judicial sentencing power remained, inconsistent with a strong preference for the democratic judgment of a jury in punishment over the professional decisions of the judiciary. Kentucky\u27s experience suggests that settlement patterns and legal heritage, as well as distrust of judges, were prime determinants of that...
This paper studies the effect of punishment severity on jury decision-making using a large archival ...
Despite the vast literature on the unprecedented expansion of US prison populations since the 1970s,...
This article explores the usages of imprisonment, both de facto and de jure, from its earliest recor...
This Article traces the development of jury sentencing in non-capital felony cases in Virginia and K...
Jury sentencing in non-capital cases is one of the least understood procedures in contemporary Ameri...
After a century of reform and experimentation, sentencing remains a highly contested area of the cri...
This article examines the evolution of the jury from its origins in England through its transportati...
Drawing upon a recent study of felony jury sentencing in Kentucky, Virginia, and Arkansas, this essa...
Jury practice in the state and federal courts evolved dramatically in the nineteenth and early twent...
The punishment stage of a jury trial poses a difficult test for the conflicting attitudes and opinio...
This article examines two aspects of the jury system that have attracted far less attention from sch...
In his article, Professor Landsman surveys the historical progress of the civil jury. He argues that...
The practice of judicial comment on the evidence has traditionally been the main form of jury contro...
This article provides a brief historical explanation of the role that juries have played in Anglo-Am...
(Excerpt) This Article attempts to answer those questions both historically and theoretically. On a ...
This paper studies the effect of punishment severity on jury decision-making using a large archival ...
Despite the vast literature on the unprecedented expansion of US prison populations since the 1970s,...
This article explores the usages of imprisonment, both de facto and de jure, from its earliest recor...
This Article traces the development of jury sentencing in non-capital felony cases in Virginia and K...
Jury sentencing in non-capital cases is one of the least understood procedures in contemporary Ameri...
After a century of reform and experimentation, sentencing remains a highly contested area of the cri...
This article examines the evolution of the jury from its origins in England through its transportati...
Drawing upon a recent study of felony jury sentencing in Kentucky, Virginia, and Arkansas, this essa...
Jury practice in the state and federal courts evolved dramatically in the nineteenth and early twent...
The punishment stage of a jury trial poses a difficult test for the conflicting attitudes and opinio...
This article examines two aspects of the jury system that have attracted far less attention from sch...
In his article, Professor Landsman surveys the historical progress of the civil jury. He argues that...
The practice of judicial comment on the evidence has traditionally been the main form of jury contro...
This article provides a brief historical explanation of the role that juries have played in Anglo-Am...
(Excerpt) This Article attempts to answer those questions both historically and theoretically. On a ...
This paper studies the effect of punishment severity on jury decision-making using a large archival ...
Despite the vast literature on the unprecedented expansion of US prison populations since the 1970s,...
This article explores the usages of imprisonment, both de facto and de jure, from its earliest recor...