WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Group Dynamics, Rodney King, O. J. Simpson Murder Case
Document Summary
We will talk about jury screening and selection and the concept of bias. We have departed from the rest of the course which has been about the perspectives of the mind of the offender. Though we will talk about criminal law juries, some has to do with ivi juries as well. You can understand traditional legal doctrine about juries and psychological and socio legal challenges to that model as well. The traditional legal model is seen and most have the availability of a jury trial. The accused has the right to have a jury trial except in limited circumstances. In england, before the emergence of juries the german law had a similar thing to juries. However, in english law, when juries emerged it was more in the form of character witnesses being tried before a lord or king. So they were witnesses with intimate knowledge about what was going on in the community and gave testimony.
