Jury category: 26 books
Impartial Justice
The Real Supreme Court Cases that Define the Constitutional Right to a Neutral and Detached Decisionmaker
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This book examines the right to a neutral and detached decisionmaker as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. This right resides in the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees to procedural due process and in the Sixth Amendment’s promise of an impartial jury. Supreme...
A Life and Death Decision
A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
With a life in the balance, a jury convicts a man of murder and now has to decide whether he should be put to death. Twelve people now face a momentous choice.
Bringing drama to life, A Life and Death Decision gives unique insight into how a jury deliberates. We feel the passions, anger, and despair...
by JP Mac
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Judge not and ye shall not go home.
Thus twelve strangers find themselves weighing the evidence in a bizarre domestic violence case. This humorous non-fiction memoir, set in Los Angeles, is told by an unemployed animation writer. With one eye on the case and the other on the clock, the narrator...
by Darren Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The Jamaican legal system can be a complicated and intimidating thing, especially for those that have had no prior experience with it.
This book is to inform those of us that have been called to serve as jurors what to expect. At the time when I was called to serve as a juror, I had a hard...
The Science of Persuasion
A Litigator's Guide to Juror Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The ability to persuade comes naturally to some people and is completely foreign to others. This new second edition, is your thorough guide to the way jurors make decisions, and how you can use that knowledge to convince them that your story of a case is the correct version. This book was written for...
John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence
The Hidden Origins of Modern Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Honorable Mention, 2017 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal Writers
At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeling from the effects of rapid urbanization and industrialization. Time-honored verities proved obsolete, and intellectuals in all fields sought ways...
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
A leading law review offers a quality ebook edition. This third issue of 2012 features articles from internationally recognized legal scholars, and extensive research in Comments authored by University of Chicago Law School students.
Contents for the issue include:
ARTICLES:
"Orwell's...
by John Lord
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The period at which this History commences,—the beginning of the sixteenth century,—when compared with the ages which had preceded it, since the fall of the Roman empire, was one of unprecedented brilliancy and activity. It was a period very fruitful in great men and great events, and, though...
by W. Lance Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Coauthored by W. Lance Bennett and Martha S. Feldman, 'Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom' explains what makes stories believable and how ordinary people connect complex legal arguments and evidence presented in trials to assess guilt and innocence. The explanation takes the core elements of...
Storytelling for the Defense
Defense Attorney's Courtroom Guide to Beating Plaintiffs At Their Own Game
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Storytelling is primal for humans—one of the few human traits that is truly universal across cultures and through all of known history. The goal of Storytelling for the Defense is to help defense attorneys understand and reclaim the fundamental value of storytelling in the context of persuading jurors...
Would You Convict?
Seventeen Cases That Challenged the Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
A police trooper inspects a car during a routine traffic stop and finds a vast cache of weapons, complete with automatic rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and black ski masks-a veritable bank robber's kit. Should the men in the car be charged? If so, with what?
A son neglects to care for...
Johnny Nine
Capano Juror
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2000
Youve read the reporters story, the mystery writers story and the investigative reporters story...now read the story told from the point of view of a juror in the Tom Capano murder trial. What is the day to day life of a juror in a high profile murder case? The parade of witnesses, who is believable...
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