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The Jury In America
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Author : John Guinther
language : en
Publisher: Facts on File
Release Date : 1988
The Jury In America written by John Guinther and has been published by Facts on File this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Law categories.
Has the jury outlived its usefulness in our increasingly complex society? Are civil juries clogging our courts with inefficiencies and burdening our economy with exorbitant awards? Should the right to trial by jury in civil cases, therefore, be curtailed? Guinther provides answers.
The Jury In America
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Author : Dennis Hale
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2016-02-09
The Jury In America written by Dennis Hale and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-09 with Law categories.
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.
The Jury
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Author : Stephen J. Adler
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1994
The Jury written by Stephen J. Adler and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Law categories.
Takes us inside the jury room in seven cases ; tells us how juries go wrong, and how this can be corrected.
The American Jury System
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Author : Randolph N. Jonakait
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
The American Jury System written by Randolph N. Jonakait and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Law categories.
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.
The Jury In America
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Author : Dennis Hale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Jury In America written by Dennis Hale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
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."
American Juries
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Author : Neil Vidmar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
American Juries written by Neil Vidmar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Law categories.
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.
The Jury Crisis
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Author : Drury R. Sherrod
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-02-08
The Jury Crisis written by Drury R. Sherrod and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-08 with Law categories.
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.
The American Jury
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Author : Harry Kalven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The American Jury written by Harry Kalven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Law categories.
The Missing American Jury
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Author : Suja A. Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-16
The Missing American Jury written by Suja A. Thomas and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Law categories.
This book explores why juries have declined in power and how the federal government and the states have taken the jury's authority.
The Jury Process
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Author : Nancy S. Marder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Jury Process written by Nancy S. Marder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Law categories.
This book gives a complete overview of America's jury system. It has three instructional goals: to show where the jury stands in America's rich legal history, to explain the defining features of today's jury, and to identify aspects of the jury where improvements can and should be made. It can be used as a primary textbook for a course, or as a supplement in any law school course that includes a unit on the jury.