Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life /

Juries have been at the center of some of the most emotionally charged moments of political life. At the same time, their capacity for legitimate decision making has been under scrutiny, because of events like the acquittal of George Zimmerman by a Florida jury for the shooting of Trayvon Martin and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chakravarti, Sonali (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Temas:
Jury duty > Political aspects > United States.
Jury nullification > United States.
Jury > United States.
LAW / General.
bias.
civic participation.
jury.
law.
obedience.
radical enfranchisement.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Mature Enough to Disobey: Jurors, Women, and Radical Enfranchisement in Tocqueville's Democracy in America
  • Two. Mistaken for Consensus: Hung Juries, the Allen Charge, and the End of Jury Deliberation
  • Three. No One but You: Jurors and the Internal Standard of Reasonable Doubt
  • Four. Guilty, Not Guilty, Nullify: Nullification in an Age of Abolition
  • Five. Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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