Download or read book Race in the Jury Box written by Hiroshi Fukurai and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race in the Jury Box focuses on the racially unrepresentative jury as one of the remaining barriers to racial equality and a recurring source of controversy in American life. Because members of minority groups remain underrepresented on juries, various communities have tried race-conscious jury selection, termed "affirmative jury selection." The authors argue that affirmative jury selection can insure fairness, verdict legitimization, and public confidence in the justice system. This book offers a critical analysis and systematic examination of possible applications of race-based jury selection, examining the public perception of these measures and their constitutionality. The authors make use of court cases, their own experiences as jury consultants, and jury research, as well as statistical surveys and analysis. The work concludes with the presentation of four strategies for affirmative jury selection.
Download or read book Race and the Jury written by Hiroshi Fukurai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.
Download or read book Under Indictment Race Juries Justice in Louisiana written by Angela A Allen-Bell and published by Spines. This book was released on 2024-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years ago, I set out to write a book that memorialized the change from non-unanimous juries back to jury unanimity in Louisiana. The ending was going to celebrate the death of Jim Crow juries. Before the ink could dry on that project, there were signs of Jim Crow lurking still. This time, it was not non-unanimous juries. It was the jury of twelve that we sought, but it was not the jury box that we imagined. Now, the twelve jurors, more often than not, were all white. People of color still-even after the death of non-unanimous juries-were not experiencing the unique power that the jury box could grant them. Accused people still weren't experiencing the full protections of the Sixth Amendment. To do justice to the topic of Jim Crow juries or jury suppression, the discussion must long predate non-unanimous juries. In fact, it can't begin with juries at all. By necessity, the beginning has to be at the beginning-at the point law and race were joined to create diminished procedural safeguards for those of color, as well as different rights and different restrictions. To be credible, conversations about race and juries must always be anchored to this history. This book does that work and, in doing so, establishes the jury as a specific site of systemic racism both for the accused person of color and for the juror or prospective juror of color. After, it assesses the impact of years of systemic inequities within the legal system. The book illuminates a legal system that operates much like an assembly line. It moves fast, is solely interested in profits and production, is automated and impersonal. Specifically, this book seeks to: (1) aid the reader in viewing Louisiana's unanimous jury campaign in its racial and historical context; (2) examine the historical connection between Black juror suppression and how it is bound up in the creation and perpetuation of race and supremacy; (3) situate the jury at the center of a carceral state polluted with bias, supremacy and racism, as well as an urge to respond punitively to the most basic of human transgressions; (4) help readers achieve a holistic and comprehensive view of Louisiana's legal system and the competing factors and interests that have shaped it and led to it becoming harmful to most who come in contact with it; and, (5) to awaken a desire for transformation.
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book Jury Discrimination written by Christopher Waldrep and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries. He carried out a plan devised by Mississippi's foremost black lawyer of the time: Willis Mollison. Against staggering odds, and with the help of a friendly newspaper editor, he won. How Marshall and his allies were able to force the court to overturn state law and precedent, if only for a brief period, at the behest of the U.S. Supreme Court is the subject of Jury Discrimination, a book that explores the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on America's civil rights history. Christopher Waldrep traces the origins of Americans' ideas about trial by jury and provides the first detailed analysis of jury discrimination. Southerners' determination to keep their juries entirely white played a crucial role in segregation, emboldening lynchers and vigilantes like the Ku Klux Klan. As the postbellum Congress articulated ideals of national citizenship in civil rights legislation, most importantly the Fourteenth Amendment, factions within the U.S. Supreme Court battled over how to read the amendment: expansively, protecting a variety of rights against a host of enemies, or narrowly, guarding only against rare violations by state governments. The latter view prevailed, entombing the amendment in a narrow interpretation that persists to this day. Although the high court clearly denounced the overt discrimination enacted by state legislatures, it set evidentiary rules that made discrimination by state officers and agents extremely difficult to prove. Had these rules been less onerous, Waldrep argues, countless black jurors could have been seated throughout the nation at precisely the moment when white legislators and jurists were making and enforcing segregation laws. Marshall and Mollison's success in breaking through Mississippi law to get blacks admitted to juries suggests that legal reasoning plausibly founded on constitutional principle, as articulated by the Supreme Court, could trump even the most stubbornly prejudiced public opinion.
Download or read book Race and the Jury written by Equal Justice Initiative and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook for trial jurors serving in the United States District Courts written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... The purpose of this handbook is to acquaint trial jurors with the general nature and importance of their role as jurors; explains some of the language and procedures used in court, and offers some suggestions helpful to jurors in performing their duty ...
Download or read book North Carolina Reports written by North Carolina. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Race on Trial written by Annette Gordon-Reed and published by Viewpoints on American Culture. This book was released on 2002 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 12 original essays brings together two themes of American culture - law and race. Cases discussed include Amistad, Dred Scott, Regents v. Bakke and O.J. Simpson.
Download or read book Race and the Criminal Justice System written by Gerald A. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Jury Selection written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Jury Selection written by United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Juror s Handbook written by Lynn Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jury service is one of the most important civic duties a person can undertake, yet it is often poorly understood. This booklet has been prepared in consultation with the Juries Commissioner's Office. It answers frequently asked questions about jury service and provides prospective jurors with a clear explanation of their responsibilities and the processes involved in trials. All potential jurors will receive a copy when they attend for jury service.
Download or read book Southern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.
Download or read book The Southern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Blood Won t Tell written by Ariela J. Gross and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them. When she sued for her freedom, witnesses assured the jury that she was white, and that they would have known if she had a drop of African blood. Morrison’s court trial—and many others over the last 150 years—involved high stakes: freedom, property, and civil rights. And they all turned on the question of racial identity. Over the past two centuries, individuals and groups (among them Mexican Americans, Indians, Asian immigrants, and Melungeons) have fought to establish their whiteness in order to lay claim to full citizenship in local courtrooms, administrative and legislative hearings, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Like Morrison’s case, these trials have often turned less on legal definitions of race as percentages of blood or ancestry than on the way people presented themselves to society and demonstrated their moral and civic character. Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Ariela Gross’s book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society. This book reminds us that the imaginary connection between racial identity and fitness for citizenship remains potent today and continues to impede racial justice and equality.
