Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cerebral Palsy, Tetsuya Bushi, Telephone Directory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: Kathleen McKeown

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Learning objectives: describe how jurors are selected, distinguish between representativeness and impartiality, describe the e ects of pretrial publicity and how to deal with it, outline the stages to reaching a verdict, describe variables examined to predict verdict. Juries in canada: courts deal with both civil and criminal cases, criminal cases: an act allegedly committed as found in the criminal code of canada. 12 jurors: civil cases: involve a breach of contract or other claims of harm. Verdicts do not necessarily have to be unanimous. (a contractor says that your renovations will cost but it ends up being ) Cases heard by juries: there are three types of o ences in canada: Less serious o ences, heard by judge alone, ex: theft, probation issues, obtaining money. Highly serious o ence, heard by judge and jury, ex: treason, murder, piracy. Cross between, max sentence ti+ years if proceed by indictment, max 6 month is summary.