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Chicago Jury Project
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In 1954 social scientists and legal scholars from the University of Chicago Law School's Jury Project recorded six jury deliberations in Wichita, Kansas. Over a year later, news of the recordings erupted into a national scandal, and the researchers were subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security. This article examines how the recordings came to be viewed as a violation of the tradition of trial by jury and a "stepping stone to wrecking the entire system of justice." I begin by reviewing letters exchanged among the researchers, which illustrate how they easily arranged the jury recordings with the help of both judges and lawyers. I then analyze arguments against the jury recordings expressed in more than 100 newspaper editorials about the incident. Vehement...
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... courts are empowered to review the size of jury verdicts and to order new trials when the jury's a..., but upon the completion of the project, it could not find them. Gasperini commenced suit ...) (citing Parsons, supra; Fraloff, supra); Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co. v. Chicago, 166 U. S. 226 , 242-2...
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...In nine out of ten jury trials of defendants with prior convictions in whi..., including the classic University of Chicago Jury Project, lead to the same conclusion; (19) to...
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Iowa airports receive $3.1 million in grants WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin says the Federal Aviation Administration has awarded more than $3.1 million to improve airports across Iowa.
...CHICAGO - The amount of money being offered as a reward fo..., said his attorney, Wisconsin Innocence Project co-director Keith Findley. Official convicted. in patronage trial. CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted Chicago's former streets and sanitat...
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... the evidence, and then would instruct the jury, unrealistically, to consider the other crime only...The Chicago Jury Project's findings, published in 1966 and cit...
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...The trial judge instructed the jury that although Evans' confession was competent evid...See Broeder, The University of Chicago Jury Project, 38 Neb. L. Rev. 744, 753-755 (1959)....
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Trial by jury in civil cases . The Right and the Characteristi... within the scope of the government's project or were adjacent lands later added to the plan, Un...(9 Wall.) 274, 278 (1870); Chicago, B. & Q. R.R. v. City of Chicago, 166 U.S. 226, 24...
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CHICAGO -- SIGGRAPH announces the Computer Animation Festiival's Best in Show, Jury Award, and Best Student Project recipients for SIG...
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Jury selection laws and processes should be reformed to promote diversity in light of inherent biases in jurors' perceptions of evidence and defendants. Cognitive theory demonstrates that stereotyping, organizing perceptions based on classification, is an essential component of human thought. Current methods devised to select impartial juries are not succeeding, as evidence of racial discrimination in prosecution demonstrates. The law should allow courts to promote diverse juror perspectives by employing an affirmative selection process that allows each side to select jurors, instead of excluding them.
... inserting poison into Tylenol capsules in Chicago." Id. at 80. . (107.) The following statements wer...Broeder, University of Chicago Jury Project, 38 Neb. L. Rev. 744, 748 (1958). . (155.) Harry K...
