Juror Article Reviews Samples For Students

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Ruva, C., McEvoy, C. & Becker Bryant, J. (2007). Effects of Pre-Trial Publicity and Jury Deliberation on Juror Bias and Source Memory Errors Applied Cognitive Psychology 21, 45-67.
Is the decision of the jury as objective as it should be? In their article, titled “Effects of Pre-Trial Publicity and Jury Deliberation on Juror Bias and Source Memory Errors”, authors Ruva, Mc Evoy & Bryant, discuss the issue of jury impartiality by analyzing the degree to which the access to media information affect the decisions of the jury member and cause them to interpret the evidence either in favor or against the ...

COMPLEX SCIENTIFIC TESTIMONY: HOW DO JURORS MAKE DECISIONS?

Joel Cooper, Elizabeth A. Bennett & Holley L. Sukel
The article posed the question as to whether “regular” citizens sitting on juries are capable of understanding complex scientific data and how such complex data is processed and whether it is translated into a sound and rational verdict.
2) The methodology used
Of the fifty-four paid participants, forty participants, seventy-four (75%) percent, were selected from a local community college in the Princeton, New Jersey area while fourteen (14) participants, twenty-five (25%) percent, were from a local retirement community. Interestingly, one-hundred (100%) percent of the participants considered themselves upper-middle-lower middle class which ...

In the article Can Jury Trial Survive Google?, the author Caren Myers Morrison (2011) describes a budding problem in the American jury system and provides recommendations to address these problems.
According to Morrison (2011), the jurors’ misuse of technology is negatively affecting their impartiality, which is supposed to ensure the fairness of trials. Because of the accessibility of information via the Internet and because of the ease of communication that technology affords, more and more jurors are engaging in behaviors that compromise their impartiality towards the cases that they’re hearing.
In particular, Morrison (2011) identifies four ways ...