PSYC 268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jury Trial, Publication Ban, Trial
1 Oct 2016
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Involve matters of practice or procedure in which laws and circumstances are not in dispute. Informal/ intuitive decision making d: ppl who who are expected to make a wide range of practical decisions, whenever and wherever the need arises. Juries: a gp of ppl converged to make a legal decision by functioning as a trier of fact. Crim case: verdict must be delivered by at least 10 jurors, unanimous. Juries deliver verdicts, do not provide reasons for decisions a: except for the purposes of investigating the offence of obstruction of justice, Canadian jurors are prohibited form disclosing the content of deliberations b. i. To promote full and frank discussion in the jury room without fear of ridicule in a public forum, to ensure finality of the verdict, to protect jurors form harassment, censure and reprisals: archival research a. Judges tend to be uncomfortable with the idea of random assignment of juries or trials to various experimental conditions.
