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- Title
"The Verdict Is In: A Study of Jury Decision Making Factors, Moment of Personal Decision, and Jury Deliberations--From the Jurors' Point of View"
- Authors
Pettus, Ann Burnett
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to gain insight into jury decision making factors, jury decision timing, and the jury decision making process by talking to actual trial jurors. Three criminal jury trials were observed, and seventeen of the jurors were interviewed after each trial's completion. The data indicate that jurors were influenced by the evidence, witnesses, lawyers, and defendant in the trials. In two trials, jurors made their decisions early; one trial produced later decisions. The jurors' reports also demonstrate that jurors considered evidence and discussed the key issues during deliberation.
- Subjects
DECISION making; JURY; TRIALS (Law); LAY judges; JURORS; VERDICTS
- Publication
Communication Quarterly, 1990, Vol 38, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
0146-3373
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/01463379009369743