Jonakait, Randolph N.

The American jury system [electronic resource] / Randolph N. Jonakait. - Yale University Press, c2003. - 1 online resource (xxv, 346 p.) - Yale contemporary law series . - Contemporary law series. .

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

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.

0300093950 (C : alk. paper) 9780300093957 (C : alk. paper) 9780300129403 (electronic bk.) 0300129408 (electronic bk.)


Jury--United States.
Jury--États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--Judicial Branch.
LAW--Legal Services.
LAW--Civil Procedure.
Juryrechtspraak.

სამართალი-- სასამართლო ხელისუფლება-- ნაფიც მსაჯულთა სისტემა


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