This article examines the findings from recent psychological research to conclude that the
lawyer often will be wrong, will be unaware of her mental processes, and would not have …

The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees a criminal defendant the
right to trial" by an impartial jury." 2 The apparent simplicity of the impartiality requirement is …

One of the ideals underlying any jury system is that those groups of citizens charged with the
responsibility of deciding cases should be representative of the communities from which …

Verdicts matter. They matter not only to the parties and their counsel in those few cases
where verdicts are rendered, 1 but also to public policy makers and lawyers evaluating that …

Racially mixed criminal juries deliberate better and are viewed by the public as more
legitimate than all-white and mostly-white juries. The constitution forbids racial …

Modern Fourteenth Amendment doctrine is difficult to square with constitutional text. The text
of the Equal Protection Clause, for example, makes no distinction between racial …

Almost from the moment the law is set to paper, it is shaped and refined through acts of
interpretation and discretion. Police and prosecutors choose which cases to investigate …

Despite a constitutional mandate that jury pools in the United States be representative of
their communities, almost no datasets exist that can describe typical levels and patterns of …

Maine is the only jurisdiction in the United States that places no limitations on a convicted
felon's juror eligibility. Instead, Maine screens prospective felon-jurors using their normal …

Race in the Jury Box focuses on the racially unrepresentative jury as one of the remaining
barriers to racial equality and a recurring source of controversy in American life. Because …