The Informed Jury

The Informed Jury

The right to a criminal jury trial is a constitutional disappointment. Cases almost never make it to a jury because of plea bargaining. In the few cases that do, the jury is relegated to a narrow factfinding role that denies it normative voice or the ability to serve as a meaningful check on excessi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Vanderbilt law review 2022-04, Vol.75 (3), p.823-890
Hauptverfasser: Epps, Daniel, Ortman, William
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Analysis
Constitutional law
Convictions (Law)
Criminal justice
Criminal law
Criminal pleas
Criminal procedure
Criminal sentences
Disclosure of information
Evaluation
Ignorance
Instructions to juries
Interpretation and construction
Judges & magistrates
Juries
Laws, regulations and rules
Legislators
Management
Plea bargaining
Proportionality (Law)
Punishment
Rhetoric
Right to trial by jury
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State court decisions
Trials
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Zusammenfassung:The right to a criminal jury trial is a constitutional disappointment. Cases almost never make it to a jury because of plea bargaining. In the few cases that do, the jury is relegated to a narrow factfinding role that denies it normative voice or the ability to serve as a meaningful check on excessive punishment.
ISSN:0042-2533
1942-9886