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Overview ● Racial Bias in Jury Selection ● Importance of Minority Representation on Juries ● Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences ● Call To Action • Racial bias in jury selection is illegal • Juries are supposed to represent communities and …
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Supporting Juror Impartiality November 10 and 12, 2021 New Jersey Judiciary As part of this Judicial Conference, the Court welcomes feedback on the use of the Juror Impartiality Video, as well as the new voir dire questions and enhancements to the model …
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Juror Records & Demographic Data November 10 and 12, 2021 New Jersey Judiciary • State v. Dangcil, 248 N.J. 114 (2021) • Voluntary Demographic Questions • Demographic Reports: New York and Connecticut Models • Timeframe for Implementation • Questions and …
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PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES AT THE TURN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN JURY SELECTION STRATEGIES AS SEEN IN PRACTITIONERS' TRIAL MANUALS April J. Anderson* Peremptory challenges based on race, national origin, religion, and class are …
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A1_CHERNOFF (DO NOT DELETE) 7/4/2016 4:20 PM 1719 No Records, No Right: Discovery & the Fair Cross-Section Guarantee Nina W. Chernoff ABSTRACT: Every criminal defendant has the right to a jury selected from a “fair cross-section” of the community—a pool …
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THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CHIEF JUSTICE JOSEPH WEINTBAUB LECTURE THE EVOLUTION OF RACE IN THE JURY SELECTION PROCESS presented by The Honorable James H. Coleman, Jr.• When preparing this lecture, I discovered that Chief Justice Weintraub and I share a few …
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Hybrid Jury Strikes Aliza Plener Cover* Modern jury selection is pulled in two directions. Equal protection prohib its racial discrimination, but the traditional peremptory strike permits exclusion of a juror without explanation. To reconcile this …
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VOL. 9, No. 2 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 299 Removal of Women and African Americans injury Selection in South Carolina Capital Cases, 1997-2012 Ann M. Eisenberg* Abstract The Supreme Court's May 2016 decision in Foster v. Chatman involved …
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ARTICLE THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES: AN EXAMINATION OF LATINO JURORS ROGER ENRIQUEZ, J.D.t & JOHN w. CLARK III, Ptt.D.t INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
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A Stubborn Legacy: The Overwhelming Importance of Race in Jury Selection in 173 Post-Batson North Carolina Capital Trials* Catherine M. Grosso & Barbara O'Brien** I. INTRODUCTION …
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Peremptory Challenges Should Be Abolished: A Trial Judge's Perspective Morris B. Hoffmant INTRODUCTION Although reports of the death of the peremptory challenge have been greatly exaggerated, 1 the debate about its continuing vitality rages on, both in …
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Accessing Jury Selection Data in a Pre-Digital Environment Liz McCurry Johnson† Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 I. The Jury in the Sunshine Project . . . . …
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kang-trojan-horses-of-race … kang-trojan-horses-of-race Discover a variety of judicial programs, informational resources, and volunteer opportunities offered by the New Jersey Courts, including mediation, supervised visitation, and name …
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The words “attitude” and “stereotype” are terms-of-art in social psychology. An “attitude” is an overall evaluative valence toward a category, which ranges from positive to negative. To take an uncontroversial example, some people prefer dogs to cats. …
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I. DEFLATE (YOUR EGO) AND EMBRACE FALLIBILITY 1. Recognize that you are fallible. 2. Avoid “moral credentialing” simply because you have studied implicit bias. 3. Don’t fret over external motivations for political correctness. Instead, cultivate your …
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FORGOTTEN RACIAL EQUALITY: IMPLICIT BIAS, DECISIONMAKING, AND MISREMEMBERING JUSTIN D. LEVINSONt ABSTRACT In this Article, I claim that judges and jurors unknowingly misremember case facts in racially biased ways. Drawing upon studies from implicit social …
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JUSTICE STEVENS, THE PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE, AND THE JURY Nancy S. Marder* INTRODUCTION This Symposium devoted to the Jurisprudence of Justice Stevens provides an ideal opportunity to examine the dual aspirations that shape Justice John Paul Stevens's …
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BATSON v. KENTUCKY: A PROMISE UNFULFILLED The Honorable Theodore McMillian• Christopher J. Petrini•• I. INTRODUCTION: DEFINING THE PROBLEM Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I want to thank "Harmony in a World of Difference" and the UMKC Continuing …
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New Jersey Judiciary BENCH MANUAL ON JURY SELECTION Approved by the Judicial Council December 4, 2014 New Jersey Courts www .njcourts . com Independence• Integrity Fairness • Quality Service - i - N O T I C E This Bench Manual on Jury Selection (Manual) …
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DOES UNCONSCIOUS RACIAL BIAS AFFECT TRIAL JUDGES? Jeffrey J Rachlinski, * Sheri Lynn johnson,t Andrew J Wistrich,t & Chris Guthriett Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly situated white …