Add to ORKGMy focus today will be on the twelve-person unanimous jury and on the contrasts between such juries and six-person juries or twelve-person juries than can return verdicts by ten-two or nine-three votes. Until about fifteen years ago, it appeared that the sixth and seventh amendments required all federal juries to have twelve members who reached unanimous verdicts, and it appeared possible that the Supreme Court would force the states to conform to the federal standards. Instead, the court did almost the opposite. It sanctioned juries as small as size six in state criminal cases and federal civil cases, and it allowed twelve-person juries in state criminal cases to return verdicts when only nine persons agreed. We must take the Supreme Court...
Support is growing for increased use of six-member juries in civil cases. Presently, a jury with les...
Juries are a fundamental element of the criminal justice system. In this article, we model jury deci...
Twelve-person juries are often regarded as one of the cornerstones of democracy. In the UK, the righ...
My focus today will be on the twelve-person unanimous jury and on the contrasts between such juries ...
In the mid-1990s, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, with Fifth Circuit Judge Patrick Higginboth...
The most convincing basis for criticism of the Supreme Court\u27s conclusion that there is no disce...
Having declared trial by jury a fundamental right in Duncan v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court began to...
In the mid-1990s, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, with Fifth Circuit Judge Patrick Higginboth...
Few advocates of the jury system would argue that the average juror is as competent a tribunal as th...
After 700 years of common-law history and nearly 200 years of constitutional history, the Supreme Co...
In the late 1960s, dockets in federal courts were becoming increasingly crowded, the backlog of crim...
A criminal jury of fewer than 6 members and a jury in which 5 out of 6 can find a verdict were held ...
When I first began to study the jury more than thirty years ago, the topic of this Journal issue, ju...
The article was orginally submitted jointly with Dr. Jay Schulman as prepared testimony to the Senat...
The Framers of the Sixth and Seventh Amendments to the United States Constitution recognized that ju...
Support is growing for increased use of six-member juries in civil cases. Presently, a jury with les...
Juries are a fundamental element of the criminal justice system. In this article, we model jury deci...
Twelve-person juries are often regarded as one of the cornerstones of democracy. In the UK, the righ...
My focus today will be on the twelve-person unanimous jury and on the contrasts between such juries ...
In the mid-1990s, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, with Fifth Circuit Judge Patrick Higginboth...
The most convincing basis for criticism of the Supreme Court\u27s conclusion that there is no disce...
Having declared trial by jury a fundamental right in Duncan v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court began to...
In the mid-1990s, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, with Fifth Circuit Judge Patrick Higginboth...
Few advocates of the jury system would argue that the average juror is as competent a tribunal as th...
After 700 years of common-law history and nearly 200 years of constitutional history, the Supreme Co...
In the late 1960s, dockets in federal courts were becoming increasingly crowded, the backlog of crim...
A criminal jury of fewer than 6 members and a jury in which 5 out of 6 can find a verdict were held ...
When I first began to study the jury more than thirty years ago, the topic of this Journal issue, ju...
The article was orginally submitted jointly with Dr. Jay Schulman as prepared testimony to the Senat...
The Framers of the Sixth and Seventh Amendments to the United States Constitution recognized that ju...
Support is growing for increased use of six-member juries in civil cases. Presently, a jury with les...
Juries are a fundamental element of the criminal justice system. In this article, we model jury deci...
Twelve-person juries are often regarded as one of the cornerstones of democracy. In the UK, the righ...