Jury nullifications and the bad faith juror
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- dc.contributor.author Hreno, Travisca
- dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-28T06:56:35Z
- dc.date.available 2015-07-28T06:56:35Z
- dc.date.issued 2013ca
- dc.date.modified 2015-06-22T07:08:40Zca
- dc.description.abstract Jury nullification, that phenomenon whereby a jury returns a not-guilty verdict for a defendant it believes to be technically guilty of the alleged crime, is, obviously, a controversial issue. What is not a matter of controversy, however, is the fact that the law protects the jury’s ability to behave this way. Much of the controversy therefore centers on whether juries ought to be informed of this ability to nullify free from legal redress. In this paper I examine a number of arguments both for and against the view that juries ought to be, in the words of the literature, fully informed. In the end I conclude that there is significant empirical evidence to suggest that, rather than simply promoting justice and mercy, as proponents of the instruction argue, fully informing a jury has the unforeseen consequence of encouraging juries to behave in a manner I label bad-faith, and that such bad-faith juries in fact corrupt the principles of justice and fairness that are the cornerstones of the trial system.ca
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- dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/LEAP/article/view/294760ca
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/24662
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.publisher Law, Ethics and Philosophyca
- dc.publisher Law, Ethics and Philosophyca
- dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/LEAP/article/view/294760/383295ca
- dc.rights.uri The authors transfers a non exclusive rights of distribution, public communication and reproduction of his or her work for publication in Law, Ethics and Philosophy (LEAP) and inclusion in databases in which the journal is indexed.ca
- dc.source.uri Law, Ethics and Philosophy; 2013: Núm.: 1ca
- dc.source.uri Law, Ethics and Philosophy; 2013: Núm.: 1ca
- dc.title Jury nullifications and the bad faith jurorca
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/articleca
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