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- Private: The Danger in Disrespecting Jurors | ACS
Jurors, by law and tradition, have been accorded an elevated status in the system During their service, jurors are deputized to act on behalf of the state By virtue of citizenship, they are included as co-equal participating members of the legal system To respect jurors means to honor this civic status and participation
- Private: Jury Duty is Constitution Duty | ACS
Professor Neil Vidmar wrote, “Copies should be placed in the jury assembly rooms of every courthouse ” Professor Nancy Marder, Director of the Jury Center at Chicago-Kent College of Law recommended, “Every court should give prospective jurors a copy of this book so that they will understand the jury’s integral role in our democracy ”
- Respect Jurors | ACS - American Constitution Society
Hundreds of jurors in Alabama and three other states that once had the judicial override rule had similar experiences We were called to jury duty, conscientiously served on capital trials, and made a recommendation about whether one of our fellow citizens should live or die, only to have the judge throw our hard work out the window
- “Inextricably Bound Up”: Why Courts Must Allow Jury Questioning on . . .
Despite the prominent role that sexual orientation played at trial and the fact that this role was clear before the trial began, the trial court judge refused to ask prospective jurors Mr Berthiaume’s proposed juror question, which was: "Do you harbor any biases or prejudices against persons who are gay or homosexual—or believe that
- Private: The Peterson Case: Did Juror Removal Manipulate the Verdict?
The Post reported that "some close to the case say [Jackson] angered fellow jurors when he demanded the panel methodically sift through all witness testimony and introduced exhibits before holding even a preliminary vote to see where the jury stood Shortly after his refusal to hold a vote, Jackson reportedly went to Delucchi claiming he was
- Private: Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection | ACS
In the 21 st Century, data indicates that prosecutors in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, have used peremptory strikes to exclude black prospective jurors at three times the rate of white prospective jurors; and in Houston County, Alabama, prosecutors have used peremptory strikes to exclude 80% of African Americans otherwise qualified for jury service
- Private: The New York Times Is Right on Jury Selection
Chatman, a capital case out of Georgia that the nation’s highest court will hear this fall Mr Foster, a black man, was tried in 1987 by an all-white jury empaneled after the trial judge rejected defense counsel’s objection that the prosecution had excluded all the black potential jurors due to race The court accepted the prosecutor’s
- Private: The Case Against Peremptory Challenges - ACS
Kentucky, in which the United States Supreme Court held that peremptory challenges to jurors cannot be used in a racially discriminatory manner In 59 of the 70 Batson cases reviewed for this report, the defendants challenged their convictions on the ground that the prosecution had used peremptory challenges to strike African- American jurors
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