Add to ORKGThe jury system has been the center of our judicial system since the Bill of Rights guaranteed the right to a jury in 1791. An essential component of the jury system is the selection process of jurors. During jury selection, attorneys for each side can use both peremptory challenges and challenges for cause to remove jurors from the pool. Challenges for cause allow for jurors to be removed upon the establishment of a reason for the removal, such as inability to analyze the information due to mental defect. However, the peremptory challenge requires no stated legal reasoning for the removal. As times have changed it has become necessary for laws to be enacted to regulate the peremptory challenge. This prevents jurors from being removed so...
One of the main and ongoing problems plaguing the American jury system has been ensuring that juries...
The Supreme Court\u27s decision in Batson v. Kentucky, and the extension of Batson to parties other ...
The task force was aware of some criticisms of the method of selection of jurors in Indiana courts, ...
An integral part of the jury selection process is the individual challenge, where a party has the pr...
It cannot be denied that our jury selection process has lent itself to invidious racial discriminati...
Lawyers use peremptory challenges to create partial juries. United States Supreme Court precedent ha...
This is the published version.The United States Supreme Court has rendered numerous decisions in its...
Although proponents argue that peremptory challenges make juries more impartial by eliminating “extr...
In the essay that follows, Professor Lempert pursues the lay versus professional issue, once again...
The article was orginally submitted jointly with Dr. Jay Schulman as prepared testimony to the Senat...
Critics of peremptory-challenge systems commonly contend that they inevitably inflict “inequality ha...
Seventeen states allow for a judicial peremptory challenge of a trial judge. Seven of these states r...
In People v. Wheeler, the California Supreme Court limited the scope of peremptory challenges. Under...
Since the U.S. Supreme Court began limiting the exercise of peremptory challenges to safeguard pote...
The United States Supreme Court has held that the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a prosecutor fro...
One of the main and ongoing problems plaguing the American jury system has been ensuring that juries...
The Supreme Court\u27s decision in Batson v. Kentucky, and the extension of Batson to parties other ...
The task force was aware of some criticisms of the method of selection of jurors in Indiana courts, ...
An integral part of the jury selection process is the individual challenge, where a party has the pr...
It cannot be denied that our jury selection process has lent itself to invidious racial discriminati...
Lawyers use peremptory challenges to create partial juries. United States Supreme Court precedent ha...
This is the published version.The United States Supreme Court has rendered numerous decisions in its...
Although proponents argue that peremptory challenges make juries more impartial by eliminating “extr...
In the essay that follows, Professor Lempert pursues the lay versus professional issue, once again...
The article was orginally submitted jointly with Dr. Jay Schulman as prepared testimony to the Senat...
Critics of peremptory-challenge systems commonly contend that they inevitably inflict “inequality ha...
Seventeen states allow for a judicial peremptory challenge of a trial judge. Seven of these states r...
In People v. Wheeler, the California Supreme Court limited the scope of peremptory challenges. Under...
Since the U.S. Supreme Court began limiting the exercise of peremptory challenges to safeguard pote...
The United States Supreme Court has held that the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a prosecutor fro...
One of the main and ongoing problems plaguing the American jury system has been ensuring that juries...
The Supreme Court\u27s decision in Batson v. Kentucky, and the extension of Batson to parties other ...
The task force was aware of some criticisms of the method of selection of jurors in Indiana courts, ...