PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Voir Dire, Jury Nullification, O. J. Simpson
2 Jan 2019
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Holds scales of justice to balance and weigh out evidence. Blindfolded b/c justice should just hear the evidence and weigh the evidence. Adversarial: what we have here in canada, australia, etc, make a decision using evidence is presented to judge, dispute. Inquisitional: mainly in europe, judge is much more involve, like an investigation, they are part of the investigation; they can go to the crime scene, talk to witnesses, etc. Only used is about 20% of cases. Final verdict in canada, it must be an anonymous. In the us; 6-12 then the jury is consider hung. Representativeness: jury of one"s peers , randomly selected from community. Impartial: jurors need to set aside on biases or prejudices. Judges, etc. : voir dire, lawyers get to question you. If it was a sexual assault case and you had been sexually assaulted. Generic prejudice: racist or religious prejudice. Normative prejudice: pre-trial information is known.
