PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sexual Orientation, Summary Offence, Hybrid Offence
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Make yourself look very young, attractive, what colour suit. Run focus groups and see what works the best. Exposure of certain media, influence of a certain case. Both the prosecution and the defense hired trial consultants to help with jury selection. The trial consultants on both side came to similar conclusions. The prosecution dismissed their trial consultant after the second day. Went to jail for: took a gun and went to get his memorabilia back. Received 31 years, served 9 and is not out on parole. What was said by both of the trial consultants was that he knew exactly what he was talking about. Some lawyers don"t like trial consultants because they believe theyre doing something that they are good at. 1 side: you want highly educated people on the jury. 2 side: want women because he was a known abuser and they would want him convicted. Wanted low education levels so they didn"t understand dna evidence.
