Jury Crisis - Whats Wrong With Jury Trials and How We Can Save Them

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What's Wrong with Juries?

Chapter 1 Triers of Fact
Chapter 2 Supplying Facts in Early Juries
Chapter 3 How Jurors Use Facts to Tell Stories
Chapter 4 Why Jurors Prefer Stories over Facts

Chapter 5 Jury Selection: Identifying Who Will Tell Which Stories
Chapter 6 Jury Selection in a Product-Liability Lawsuit
Chapter 7 Jury Deliberations: The Stories Widen
Chapter 8 Jury Deliberations in Real Trials
Chapter 9 Storytellers in Robes
Chapter 10 The Biases behind Judges' Stories
Chapter 11 The Vanishing Jury
Chapter 12 Trying the Jury Trial
Chapter 13 Junk the Jury or Fix the Flaws?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Drury R. Sherrod

Zusammenfassung

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.

Vorwort

The second book in the Daughters of Erin trilogy

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Drury R Sherrod, Drury R. Sherrod
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781538109533
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0953-3
• Seiten: 192
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Kriminologie; USA, LAW / General, LAW / Criminal Procedure, LAW / Trial Practice, LAW / Jury, United States of America, USA, Criminal procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Jury trials, Legal system: general