The imagined juror how hypothetical juries influence federal prosecutors
Examines the outsized influence of jurors on prosecutorial discretion. Thanks to television and popular media, the jury is deeply embedded in the American public’s imagination of the legal system. For the country’s federal prosecutors, however, jurors have become an increasingly rare sight. Today, i...
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New York, NY
New York University Press
2022, ©2022
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prosecutorial discretion
- Imagining the jury
- Storied justice
- Self-conscious voir dire
- Judging character
- Judicial discretion beyond truth
- Conclusion