Author
Jonakait, Randolph N.
Title
The American jury system / Randolph N. Jonakait.
Published
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2003.
Format
Book
Description
xxv, 346 p. ; 25 cm.
Series
( Yale contemporary law series)
Link
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/2002014241.html
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
ISBN
0300093950 (C : alk. paper)
Subject
Jury -- United States.
Series Add.Entry
Contemporary law series
