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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What's Wrong with Juries?

1 Triers of Fact

2 Supplying Facts in Early Juries

3 How Jurors Use Facts to Tell Stories

4 Why Jurors Prefer Stories over Facts

5 Jury Selection: Identifying Who Will Tell Which Stories

6 Jury Selection in a Product-Liability Lawsuit

7 Jury Deliberations: The Stories Widen

8 Jury Deliberations in Real Trials

9 Storytellers in Robes

10 The Biases behind Judges' Stories

11 The Vanishing Jury

12 Trying the Jury Trial

13 Junk the Jury or Fix the Flaws?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

About the author

By Drury R. Sherrod

Summary

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.

Foreword

The second book in the Daughters of Erin trilogy

Product details

• Authors: Drury R Sherrod, Drury R. Sherrod
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781538109533
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0953-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; 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