The American jury system / Randolph N. Jonakait.

• Superior document: Yale contemporary law series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Jonakait, Randolph N.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary law series.
• Physical Description: xxv, 346 p.

Table of 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.