PSY 3173 Lecture 6: Chapter 7- juries fact finders
12 Feb 2017
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Hybrid offences the crown decides to pursue the case as a summary or indictable offence. Selected from list part of jury pool (peremptory challenges)--> selected as juror. 1000$ or 6 months in jail if don"t fill out form for jury duty. Has to represent community crime occurred in. Unbiased, doesn"t have any connections (not related), set aside any pre-existing prejudices and attitudes, focus on facts. Have to avoid any potentially related information. Ex: **gillian guess - first known canadian case obstructing justice became romantically in love with murderer and sexual discussions. In canada normally juror discussions cannot be made public. Negative pretrial publicity related to an increase number of guilty verdicts. Emotions that pretrial publicity raises are remembered , while factual information tends to be forgotten. High emotion, reality experiment- stern"s, heightened emotions you focus on gun and remember less. Part requesting has to demonstrate that community is biased or. Witnesses will have distorted memories though if goes to long.
