Showing posts with label juries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label juries. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Plea Bargaining

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Many posts have discussed the American legal system . Jacob Sullum at Reason : Criminal defendants make similar calculations every day, ...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Federal Grand Juries

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A number of posts have discussed juries . John Gramlich at Pew : Federal grand juries indict tens of thousands of people per year in the...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

Tocqueville on Juries

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From  Democracy in America [eds. J. P. Mayer and Max Lerner, trans., George Lawrence, Harper & Row, 1966, pp. 249-53] To regard the jur...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Civil Juries

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Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Lawrence/Mayer ed., p. 274): Juries , especially civil juries, instill some of the habits of t...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Encouraging Trend on Jury Duty

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Previous posts  (including  a first-hand account of my own experience ) have discussed  jury duty . Russell Contreras at Axios: Driving the...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Race and Online Deliberation

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Ken Broda-Bahm at JD Supra; As the coronavirus pandemic drags on and intensifies, courts around the country are moving toward reopening ...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Jury Duty and Good Citizenship

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John Gramlich writes at Pew: In an April Pew Research Center survey , two-thirds of U.S. adults (67%) said s erving on a jury “is part of ...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Justices on Jury Duty

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A number of posts have discussed jury duty .  Even high official s are not exempt.   The Washington Post reports : One potential juror w...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

The Jury Right

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At The Weekly Standard , David M. Wagner writes: [Eighty-one] years before the right to vote made its first appearance in the Constitutio...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Noncitizens and Juries: A Bill Veto

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Patrick McGreevy reports at The Los Angeles Times   that Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA) has vetoed a bill allowing legal aliens to serve on ju...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Jury Duty, Deliberation, and Citizenship

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At The Atlantic , Andrew Guthrie Ferguson writes about the value of jury duty : A jury summons is an invitation to participation. Jurors ...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Jury Duty

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Previous posts  (including a first-hand account of my own experience ) have discussed jury duty .  Andrew Guthrie Ferguson has a new book o...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

The Candidates and the Constitution

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In The Constitution on the Campaign Trail , Andrew Busch finds a limited resurgence in constitutional rhetoric in recent campaigns, reflect...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Liberals, Academics, and Jury Selection

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During jury selection, attorneys for each side try to strike jurors who would be unsympathetic. Inside Higher Ed reports : Whether profe...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

The Bible and the Burden of Proof

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In The Wall Street Journal , Alan Dershowitz uses the Anthony case as an occasion to explain the origins of the "reasonable doubt"...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Reasonable Doubt and Presumption of Innocence

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After the verdict in the Anthony case, many commentators have criticized the jury . Consider, however, the rules that a jury must follow. ...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Serving on a Jury

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In Democracy in America , Tocqueville wrote : Juries are wonderfully effective in shaping a nation’s judgment and increasing its natural li...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

A Trial and an Oath

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Yesterday, a federal jury found former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich guilty of a single corruption count and deadlocked on the other 23...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

President Obama on Jury Duty?

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As we explain in the chapter on the judiciary, trial by jury is an important principle of the nation's legal system. Jury duty is also ...