Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-330) and index.
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.
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