Title: Judges and Juries: The Defense Case and Differences in Acquittal Rates
Abstract: Kalven and Zeisel's (1966) classic study of the American Jury concluded that juries were "in revolt" from the law when they acquitted when judges would have convicted.. Using data collected by the National Center for State Court to examine jury decision-making in four different communities, this paper re-examines the question of the judge and jury's respective fidelity to the law and evidence by examining the influence on judge and jury of the defendant's evidence, his criminal record, and his reason for refusing to plead No data can tell us definitively whether the judge is correct and the jury in error when they disagree, but the data analyzed in the present study can tell us whether the factors that move the jury and fail to move the judge are or are not consistent with the innocence of the accused.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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