PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robert Pickton, Paul Bernardo, Summary Offence
15 Mar 2018
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The right to a jury in canada: summary offences, less serious offences, accounts for the vast majority of offences committed in canada, no right to jury cases heard by judges only. Indictable offences: most serious offences, right to jury, hybrid offences, can be tried as summary or indictable offences. The function of a jury: decide facts from trial evidence, rendering a verdict of guilty or not guilty, education for the citizens, community consciousness, not sentencing. Characteristics of a jury: representativeness, random selection from community, representative of community, impartiality, attitudinal (prejudice, behavioural (discrimination) In canada we have: limits on pre-trial publicity (minimize bias) I. e. publication bans in high-profile cases: limits on discussions by jurors, 12-person juries (cancel out biases, reminders about sworn oaths. Interviews w jurors (us only: archival records, looking at statistical relationships btwn variables, ex. expert witness testimonies & verdicts, simulation techniques, most common in canada, usually done using transcripts, field studies.
