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Research Topics on: juries

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Books on: juries

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Journal Articles on: juries

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Magazine Articles on: juries

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Newspaper Articles on: juries

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    Panel Report Seeks Grand Jury Overhaul
    Newspaper article by Jim Keary; The Washington Times, July 20, 2001
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...to the D.C. grand jury system, the study notes that grand juries are designed to protect...prosecutions but "the grand jury system has come under...facility to show the juries impartiality. "The location of the grand jury should reflect its status...
     
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    Jury Verdicts Tilted Which Way by Race
    Newspaper article by Paul Craig Roberts; The Washington Times, February 21, 1997
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Jury verdicts tilted which way by...For most categories of crime, juries acquit blacks at a higher rate...prejudice. Inner-city black juries are more suspicious of prosecutors...doubt. Middle class and white juries, worried about crime, tend...
     
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    Juries 'Reject Rape Claims If the Woman Was Drunk'
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 7, 2006
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Juries Reject Rape Claims If the Woman Was Drunk. Byline: STEVE DOUGHTY JURIES are reluctant to convict men of rape if the accuser...But Government research published yesterday shows juries do not believe drunken sex should end in a rape...
     
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    I Suspect Jury Service Has a Lot of the Tony Hancocks about It
    Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 7, 2007
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...constabulary had served on juries. Before the law had been...they couldnt sit on a jury - nor could peers, lawyers...still keep madmen off juries, but they allow coppers...lives, that here it is a jury of your peers that convict...many policemen serve on juries - which is a small number...
     
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    Juries Are Confused by Judges; Study Shows the System Does Work
    Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), February 17, 2010
    Subjects: 
    Judges--Reports, Judges--Research
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Juries Are Confused by Judges...study suggested today. Jury members also looked...were that all-white juries do not discriminate...cannot be attributed to juries failure to convict in...Jack Straw said: "The jury system is working...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: juries

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    Jury
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...S. states preserve jury trials for a variety of...limited the use of civil juries to cases in which community...and fraud). The Modern Jury In most criminal cases...generally less recourse to the jury and less care in the selection...jurors. The value of juries in civil trials is disputed...
     
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    Grand Jury
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...petit (also, petty) jury, having since early...States, federal grand juries have between 16 and 23 jurors. The grand jury receives complaints...might be excluded at a jury trial may be introduced. The use of grand juries has declined in the...
     
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    Watergate Affair
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...subsequently obtained indictments and convictions against several high-ranking administration officials; one of the grand juries investigating the Watergate affair named Nixon as an unindicted coconspirator and turned its evidence over to the Judiciary...
     
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    Supreme Court, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...conservative judicial activism. A significant subsequent set of decisions (2004, 2005) in which the justices found that only juries can make the findings of fact that affect a defendants sentence was notable for the shifting alliances among the members that...
     
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    Penal Laws
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Irish Parliament (1692), hold public office, vote (1727), or practice law. Cases against Catholics were tried without juries, and bounties were given to informers against them. Under these restrictions many able Irishmen left the country, and regard...
     

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