CHEM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jury Nullification, Reversible Error, Jury Duty

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 110
• Professor: Ariel Fenster

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Sentencing as a subjective exercise & discrimination in sentencing and special sentencing considerations (mar 14: sentencing isn"t an afterthought, it"s a major element of case. These principles are set out at section 7. 18: the most important of these principle is principle of proportionality at section. 7. 18 (1: that sentence is equal to gravity of offence and moral culpability of offender (balanced consideration of both) Because of higher policing rates than in white communities. In other words, as long as a state tries to identify the right amount of people, they don"t have ultimate responsibility to make sure that people who actually show up for duty represent this broad cross-section of society. If this minority view had been the majority in this case, it would have resulted in a major change to jury selection process and would slow down the system in many ways. In aba"s opinion, the easy and faster road was taken.