PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Criminal Law Of Canada, Cross-Examination, Trial
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Plan for today: trial consultation, criminal law. In us --> decentralized federation in which each state was own criminal law. See most difference between canada + us are in jury selection + the remedies we use for the biases. In us is big business: 7 figures for trial consultant to do a trial, cases involving trial consultants are high in media or big business or celebrity clients. In canada trial consultation is a very small business: restriction on amount of questions or interact with potential jurors, no set degree or governing body, no law degree or phd needed. Jury selection: sources and remedies of bias. Trial consultation - what they are usually asked to do. For this case the defence had more resources and had a leg up on the prosecution: both suggested that you want, caucasian jurors, highly educated people, men not women.
