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Due Process Clause Trial By Jury
1,934 wordsThe paper studies the history of the jury system in the United States. The major focus of the paper is to find out how and why the jury functions. How the jury reaches its decisions, what factors and which types of jurors influence decisions, how responsive the jury is to the rules of law and evidence. The paper suggests how jury system can be done better. Outline Introduction History Constitution and Federal Laws Discussion Description of the jury system Trial by jury The jury system criticism ...
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Percent Of The Cases Mental Illness
1,934 words... of laymen or a group of medical experts? Most of the time the jury resolved its dilemma by spelling out for itself the separate tasks that the law expected each to perform. In essence, the jury concluded that the experts testimony emphasized only one aspect of the problem, the clinical part, and that his testimony contributed little to the major dilemma that confronted the jury, that of placing the clinical or purely medical facts about the defendant into a moral-legal context. The jurors re...
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Taking Into Account Apology Socrates
2,108 wordsIn the play The Last Days of Socrates by, Plato, Socrates is found guilty of the charges brought against him. Taking into account the articles Euthyphro, the Apology, and I. F. Stone s article, When Free Speech was First Condemned, it is not surprising that Socrates was found guilty. In Euthyphro, and in I. F. Stone s article, Socrates shows the reader that he is aware that his charges are severe and perhaps it is better for him to be convicted. It seems to the reader that Socrates is actually t...
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Voir Dire Impartial Jury
2,870 wordsAnonymous Juries The American criminal justice system has traditionally made the identities and addresses of jurors known to the judge, the prosecution, and the defense. That tradition began to erode with the unprecedented sua sports trial court decision to use an anonymous jury in the case United States v. Barnes, a highly publicized criminal trial of notorious organized crime figures in New York City. Since Barnes, Federal prosecutors in New York have requested and been granted anonymous jurie...
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