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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments in Modern Law
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Michael S Lief, H Mitchell Caldwell, Benjamin Bycel
A collection that gathers many of the greatest closing arguments from celebrated trials throughout history. The author captures the drama and excitement of the courtroom and eloquently reconstructs the mood of noted cases, and describes their outcomes.
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Trial by Jury
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D Burnett
Through a memoir of his own experience as jury foreperson in a murder case, a Princeton professor considers issues of crime, trials, and juries--and criminal justice.
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We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy
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Jeffrey Abramson
In a new preface to this foundational book on the American jury, Abramson responds to his critics, defends his views on the jury as an embodiment of deliberative democracy in action, and reflects on jury trials and reforms.
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Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and an Ordinary Murder in New Haven
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Professor Norma Thompson
It was to all appearances an ordinary murder - many might have said that it was an open-and-shut case. But some jurors were not convinced, and the taint of reasonable doubt led one of them to question the very future of our legal system. For many Americans, the civic responsibility of jury duty might seem an inconvenience; for Norma Thompson, it ...
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The Palladium of Justice: Origins of Trial by Jury
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Leonard Williams Levy
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian chronicles the history of the jury trial, from its roots in the medieval inquest to its late 18th-century evolution as the protectorate of justice.
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Trial of the Century: You Be the Juror
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Robert Walton, F Lagard Smith
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Winning Courtroom Strategies
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Edward T Wright
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Race in the Jury Box: Affirmative Action in Jury Selection
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Hiroshi Fukurai, Richard Krooth
Discusses race-conscious jury selection and highlights strategies for achieving racially mixed juries. Race in the Jury Box focuses on the racially unrepresentative jury as one of the remaining barriers to racial equality and a recurring source of controversy in American life. Because members of minority groups remain underrepresented on juries, ...
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Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide
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Reid Hastie, John W Payne, David A Schkade
Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number and magnitude of punitive damages verdicts rendered by juries in civil trials. Probably the most extraordinary example is the July 2000 award of $144.8 billion in the Florida class action lawsuit brought against the cigarette manufacturers. More puzzling were ...
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What Makes Juries Listen: A Communications Expert Looks at the Trial
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Sonya B Hamlin
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Judging the Jury
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Ms. Valerie P Hans, Neil Vidmar (Photographer)
"In this work, Hans and Vidmar review the historical evolution of the trial jury, the contemporary role of the jury in the American criminal justice system, and future prospects for the jury as an institutional force." (Choice).
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The Jury:: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom
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Stephen J Adler
The Wall Street Journal's legal editor offers a compelling portrait of the American jury system--and its decline--and outlines the steps needed for reform. Adler travels across America, interviewing judges, lawyers, and jurors, and reconstructs seven trails in detail.
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You're the Jury: Solve Twelve Real-Life Court Cases Along with the Juries Who Decided Them
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Norbert Ehrenfreund, Lawrence Treat
A judge in the Superior Court of California and his brother-in-law, a founder of the Mystery Writers of America and author of Crime and Puzzlement, team up to deliver a new angle on true crime. You're the Jury presents 12 trials that provide not only a fascinating look at justice in action but also a chance to step into the jury box and decide on ...
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Race and the Jury
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Hiroshi Fukurai, Edgar W Butler, Richard Krooth
In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.
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In the Hands of the People: The Trial Jury's Origins, Triumphs, Troubles, and Future in American Democracy
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William L. Dwyer
In a passionate warning that is not only well-reasoned, as becomes a renowned former trial lawyer and present federal judge, but is also a compelling and entertaining read, William L. Dwyer defies those who would abolish our jury system and hand over its power to judges or to panels of "experts." He aims, by making his readers aware of what should ...
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We the Jury
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Godfrey D Lehman
Your worst nightmare: twelve jurors stand between you and a miscarriage of justice, and none of them have read this book. Few doubt that America's judicial system is one of the fairest, but we all agree it has problems. Sometimes it must enforce unjust laws, or administer laws in ways that seem inherently unfair. In criminal cases, each ...
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Anatomy of a Jury
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Seymour Wishman
The inside story of how twelve ordinary people, as jurors, decide the fate of an accused murderer, from the author of Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer.
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Commonsense Justice: Jurors' Notions of the Law
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Norman J Finkel
Law is an essentially human endeavor, a collection of psychological theories about why people think, feel, and behave as they do, and when and why we should find some of them blameworthy and punishable. In this book the author looks at the relationship between "law on the books" as set down in the Constitution and developed in cases and decisions, ...
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Stack and Sway: The New Science of Jury Consulting
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Neil J Kressel, Ph.D., Dorit F Kressel, J.D.
A new - and largely hidden - profession has emerged during the past three decades. Drawing on the techniques of modern social science, psychology, and market research, its practitioners seek to remake the way we pursue justice in the United States. Trial consultants help lawyers to pick some would say, stack juries predisposed to render the ...
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Medical Malpractice and the American Jury: Confronting the Myths about Jury Incompetence, Deep Pockets, and Outrageous Damage Awards
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Neil Vidmar
Returns the verdict on the performance of medical malpractice juries
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The Hidden Jury and Other Secret Tactics Lawyers Use to Win
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Paul Michael Lisnek, Johnnie L Cochran, Jr. (Foreword by)
A revealing look at jury consultants and the manipulation of the American justice system.
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Judge the Jury: Experience the Power of Reading People
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Alice Weiser (Editor)
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Dismantling American Common Law: Liberty and Justice in Our Transformed Courts
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Kyle Scott
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The American Jury on Trial
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Dr. Lawrence S Wrightsman, Saul M Kassin, 2nd, M Kassin Saul
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Inside the Juror: The Psychology of Juror Decision Making
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Reid Hastie (Editor)
Inside the Juror presents the most interesting and sophisticated work to date on juror decision making from several traditions - social psychology, behavioural decision theory, cognitive psychology, and behavioural modeling. The authors grapple with crucial questions, such as: why do jurors who hear the same evidence and arguments in the courtroom ...
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