PSY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Summary Offence, Russ Feingold, Class Discrimination
27 Nov 2016
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Summary offences really minor type crimes. Civil trials mostly go with judge only trials. In criminal cases that go to court about 2/3 are resolved without a trial (plea guilty)- skipping all the way to sentencing and judge is responsible for sentencing. 1/3 are disposed by trial: of those use juries, use judge alone. The majority of these are serious crimes. Jury"s task to determine which of two contested (cid:498)realities(cid:499) are real. Not supposed to use inadmissible information from in or outside the courtroom. Sentencing: one exception: during second degree murder they can tell the judge what the sentencing should be (that they find him guilty but can propose parole after 10 years for example) Must have a unanimous verdict: however, can continue with no more than 2 members excused. Must only use facts of the case, and laws supplied by judge.
