The American Jury System / Randolph N. Jonakait.

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2003.

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Jury -- United States.

Introduction

1. Overview

2. Checking abuses of power

3. Hammering out facts

4. Juries and community values

5. Abide the issue

6. Jury size and jury performance

7. Unanimity and hung juries

8. The vicinage

9. The most diverse of our democratic bodies

10. Challenges for cause

11. Peremptory challenges

12. "Scientific" jury selection

13. The adversary system

14. Presentation of evidence

15. Instructions

16. Jury verdicts and the primacy of evidence

17. Jury truials of complex cases

18. Jury nullification

19. The finality of verdicts

20. Reform

Notes

Index.

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