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Two mechanisms by which panelists are excluded from serving on a jury
- Challenge for Cause
- Peremptory Challenge
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In any trial, each side can claim that particular jurors should be excluded because they are biasedEach side has an unlimited number of challenges for ____
Challenge for cause
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Each side may also exclude a designated number of prospective jurors without a reason statedThe number of ___ challenges for each side varies among jurisdictions and also on the basis of the type of case and the seriousness of the charge
peremptory cause
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is the assumption that jurors who are demographically or socially similar to a litigant will be predisposed to favor that litigant
Similarity-Leniency hypothesis
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is a persons organized network of preconceptions about how certain attributes are related to one another and to behavior
implicit personality theory
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Juries in civil cases typically make two fundamental decisions
- 1) Whether the defendant (or, in some instances, the plaintiff) is liable or responsible for the alleged hard and
- 2) Whether the injured party (typically the plaintiff) should receive any money to compensate…
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7 goals of punishment break down into two
retribution and utilitarian
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they involve looking back at the offense and determining what the criminal deserves as a consequence of committing it
retributive approach
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Compensating the victim, incapacitating or rehabilitating the defendant
utilitarian approach
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death penalty trials are broken into two. what are they?
guilt phase and sentencing phase
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are elements of the crime, such as killing in an especially brutal or heinous manner, that make the defendant more likely to…
aggravating factors
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are elements of the defendant's background or the crime, such as the defendant's mental capacity, that make life imprisonment the more appropriate verdict
mitigating factors
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grrrim =
- general deterrence
- retribution
- rehabilitation
- restitution
- incapacitation
- moral outrage
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judicial decisions focus on three main concerns. BPP
- 1) Blameworthiness
- 2) protection of the community
- 3) practical constraints and consequences of the sentence
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knowledge of legal concepts
Declarative Knowledge
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