Jury Essays

What is a Grand Jury and what is it’s purpose According to the Federal Grand Jury website, [1] a grand jury is a group of people that are selected and sworn in by a court, just like jurors that are

            Watching a jury trial was a novel experience for me because I came from a country where jury trial is not practiced. On trial for homicide was Norgin Baez, a 25-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic. He was charged

The Seventh Amendment lays the foundation for jury trials for civil litigants in the way criminal defendants are protected from the self-will of courts through the Sixth Amendment. The adoption of the amendment was a breakthrough in the development of

According to Alexander Hamilton the Founding Fathers esteemed the virtues of the jury trial. The less enthusiastic of them considered it, at the least, “a valuable safeguard to liberty”; while others regarded it “as the very palladium of free government.”[1]

Prosecutorial misconduct is defined as the use of deceptive, illegal or reprehensible methods used by a prosecutor, to attempt to persuade either the court or the jury. Wrongful convictions in this country are nothing new to the criminal justice system.

In The United States criminal justice system, a Courtroom Workgroup is an informal arrangement between a criminal prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, and the judicial officer. This foundational concept in the academic discipline of criminal justice, recharacterizes the seemingly adversarial courtroom

Dwight Dexter’s rights were not upheld in criminal justice system. Sheriff Dodd had searched Dwight’s car without a warrant or consent, violating Dwight’s protection from search and seizure stated in the Fourth Amendment. In addition to this, Randolph Stone and

Twelve men with diverse backgrounds are sequestered in a room and are unable to leave until a decision, a weighty one that will either condemn a young man to death or set him free, is made. The twelve strangers are

Under s. 4 of the Uganda Evidence Act, evidence may be given in any suit or proceeding of the existence or non-existence of every fact in issue and of such other facts as are declared to be relevant. C.D. Field

J.E.B. is the petitioner, the state of Alabama, (representing T.B. – an un-wed mother of a minor child), is the respondent. The petitioner’s claim is that, by striking men from his jury, Alabama violated his constitutional rights. According to the