Psychology 3313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Peremptory Challenge, Telephone Directory, World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3313
• Professor: Dr. Janes

Document Summary

Juries act: provincial and territorial legislation that outlines the eligibility criteria for jury service and how prospective jurors must be selected. Jury summons: a court order that states a time and place to go for jury duty. What cases are heard by juries: summary, indictable, hybrid offences. 2 fundamental characteristics of juries: a jury composition that represents the community in which the crime occurred (representativeness, achieved through randomness (supposedly) using the telephone directory of voters list. Issue: aboriginal people rarely selected for jury because often those living on reserves are not listed names also homeless people have no phones: representativeness is assumed but not always successful eg. In winnipeg, crimes involving aboriginals have none on the jury. 2 types of challenges: challenge for cause. Juror has been convicted of a serious offence. Juror dismissal very rare to remove a person: 2 cases for dismissing jurors, conflict of interest. Juror in 3rd thomas sophonow trial wrongly convicted of murder.