LLB160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Adversarial System, Lexisnexis, Wicket-Keeper
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Juries wk 6: week 6: juries juries the jury is a powerful, profoundly democratic institution at the heart of our system of jurisprudence. At first it might seem like the jury, similar to an audience in pop culture, is merely the passive witness to the action in the trial, powerless to affect what is going on in front of them. Indeed, this becomes a secondary location of action without the other players suddenly they are no longer passive but extremely powerful actors within the adversarial system. This week we turn our direction to the jury as both an institution and process within the criminal (and sometimes civil) justice systems. While last week we critiqued law"s objectivity within the presumption of innocence, this week we continue to ask how interpretation and subjectivity play a role within jury deliberations. We will do this using an episode of the good wife.
