Download or read book The Jury in America and the Civil Juror written by John Guinther and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jury in America written by Dennis Hale and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jury trial is one of the formative elements of American government, vitally important even when Americans were still colonial subjects of Great Britain. When the founding generation enshrined the jury in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were not inventing something new, but protecting something old: one of the traditional and essential rights of all free men. Judgment by an “impartial jury” would henceforth put citizen panels at the very heart of the American legal order. And yet at the dawn of the 21st century, juries resolve just two percent of the nation’s legal cases and critics warn that the jury is “vanishing” from both the criminal and civil courts. The jury’s critics point to sensational jury trials like those in the O. J. Simpson and Menendez cases, and conclude that the disappearance of the jury is no great loss. The jury’s defenders, from journeyman trial lawyers to members of the Supreme Court, take a different view, warning that the disappearance of the jury trial would be a profound loss. In The Jury in America, a work that deftly combines legal history, political analysis, and storytelling, Dennis Hale takes us to the very heart of this debate to show us what the American jury system was, what it has become, and what the changes in the jury system tell us about our common political and civic life. Because the jury is so old, continuously present in the life of the American republic, it can act as a mirror, reflecting the changes going on around it. And yet because the jury is embedded in the Constitution, it has held on to its original shape more stubbornly than almost any other element in the American regime. Looking back to juries at the time of America's founding, and forward to the fraught and diminished juries of our day, Hale traces a transformation in our understanding of ideas about sedition, race relations, negligence, expertise, the responsibilities of citizenship, and what it means to be a citizen who is “good and true” and therefore suited to the difficult tasks of judgment. Criminal and civil trials and the jury decisions that result from them involve the most fundamental questions of right, and so go to the core of what makes the nation what it is. In this light, in conclusion, Hale considers four controversial modern trials for what they can tell us about what a jury is, and about the fate of republican government in America today.
Download or read book The Missing American Jury written by Suja A. Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why juries have declined in power and how the federal government and the states have taken the jury's authority.
Download or read book The American Jury System written by Randolph N. Jonakait and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are juries selected in the United States? What forces influence juries in making their decisions? Are some cases simply beyond the ability of juries to decide? How useful is the entire jury system? In this important and accessible book, a prominent expert on constitutional law examines these and other issues concerning the American jury system. Randolph N. Jonakait describes the historical and social pressures that have driven the development of the jury system; contrasts the American jury system to the legal process in other countries; reveals subtle changes in the popular view of juries; examines how the news media, movies, and books portray and even affect the system; and discusses the empirical data that show how juries actually operate and what influences their decisions. Jonakait endorses the jury system in both civil and criminal cases, spelling out the important social role juries play in legitimizing and affirming the American justice system.
Download or read book American Juries written by Neil Vidmar and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental and comprehensive volume reviews more than 50 years of empirical research on civil and criminal juries and returns a verdict that strongly supports the jury system.
Download or read book The Jury in America written by Dennis Hale and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the debate over the American jury system from the era of its greatest influence in the republican era, to the present--a time when juries are said to be "vanishing."
Download or read book America the Jury written by Christina Alessio and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMERICA, THE JURY ~ You are the Reader, and can help make a difference.Your Health is an important factor for Quality of Life.With Great Respect, Contents of this Book provides for You, Public Court Report Records that will reveal a special message. A respectful message to comprehend for a healthier experience, in a particular and unique environment.With Great Respect when reading this Book, You become ~ The Jury. With just "One Question", the Answer becomes ~ "Your Verdict".With Great Respect, Your Verdict may have the potential for making this particular and unique environment a more pleasant experience across America, and around the World.Thank you for your interest in making a difference.AMERICA, THE JURY ~ Your Respectful Verdict is in......
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 We the Jury written by Jeffrey B. Abramson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial book explores fascinating cases from American history to show how juries remain the heart of our system of criminal justice - and an essential element of our democracy. No other institution of government rivals the jury in placing power so directly in the hands of citizens. Jeffrey Abramson draws upon his own background as both a lawyer and a political theorist to capture the full democratic drama that is the jury. We, the Jury is a rare work of scholarship that brings the history of the jury alive and shows the origins of many of today's dilemmas surrounding juries and justice.
Download or read book The Jury Crisis written by Drury R. Sherrod and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting readers with intellectual and moral dilemmas faced by real jurors, The Jury Crisis explores the near collapse of jury trials in America, examines alternative paths to justice and proposes how to restore trial by jury as the trusted foundation of American democracy.
Download or read book The Jury in Lincoln s America written by Stacy Pratt McDermott and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the antebellum Midwest, Americans looked to the law, and specifically to the jury, to navigate the uncertain terrain of a rapidly changing society. During this formative era of American law, the jury served as the most visible connector between law and society. Through an analysis of the composition of grand and trial juries and an examination of their courtroom experiences, Stacy Pratt McDermott demonstrates how central the law was for people who lived in Abraham Lincoln’s America. McDermott focuses on the status of the jury as a democratic institution as well as on the status of those who served as jurors. According to the 1860 census, the juries in Springfield and Sangamon County, Illinois, comprised an ethnically and racially diverse population of settlers from northern and southern states, representing both urban and rural mid-nineteenth-century America. It was in these counties that Lincoln developed his law practice, handling more than 5,200 cases in a legal career that spanned nearly twenty-five years. Drawing from a rich collection of legal records, docket books, county histories, and surviving newspapers, McDermott reveals the enormous power jurors wielded over the litigants and the character of their communities.
Download or read book Why Jury Duty Matters written by Andrew G. Ferguson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places the idea of jury duty into perspective, noting its importance as a constitutional responsibility, and describes ways in which the experience may be enriched.
Download or read book The Jury written by Stephen J. Adler and published by Crown. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes us inside the jury room in seven cases ; tells us how juries go wrong, and how this can be corrected.
Download or read book The Missing American Jury written by Suja A. Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal, civil, and grand juries have disappeared from the American legal system. Over time, despite their significant presence in the Constitution, juries have been robbed of their power by the federal government and the states. For example, leveraging harsher criminal penalties, executive officials have forced criminal defendants into plea bargains, eliminating juries. Capping money awards, legislatures have stripped juries of their power to fix damages. Ordering summary judgment, judges dispose of civil cases without sending them to a jury. This is not what the founders intended. Examining the Constitution's text and historical sources, the book explores how the jury's authority has been taken and how it can be restored to its rightful, co-equal position as a 'branch' of government. Discussing the value of juries beyond the Constitution's requirements, the book also discusses the significance of juries world-wide and argues jury decision-making should be preferred over determinations by other governmental bodies.
Download or read book The American Jury written by Harry Kalven and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Jury written by Harry Kalven and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jury System in America written by Rita James Simon and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1975-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
