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Eyeglasses and Mock Juror Decisions
by Michael J. Brown, Ph.D.Posted on March 30, 2011 | 8 CommentsThis is the research which was publicized this month by the New York Daily News and then spread all over the internet via blogs and commentary. Occasionally, research is misinterpreted. This is one of those times. Get the real story here. -
Does Bifurcation Eliminate the Problem? A Closer Look at Hindsight Bias in the Courtroom
by Matt Groebe, M.A.Posted on January 1, 2011 | 3 CommentsHindsight bias in the courtroom. -
Between Coddling and Contempt: Managing and Mentoring Millennials
by Douglas L. Keene, Ph.D. and Rita R. Handrich, Ph.D.Posted on September 1, 2010 | 4 CommentsSee Part 1 of this article: Tattoos, Tolerance, Technology, and TMI: Welcome to the land of the Millennials (aka Generation Y) in the July 2010 issue of The Jury Expert "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just... -
Holy War: Juror Questionnaires for Cases with Middle Eastern, Arab, Muslim or Anyone-Who-Might-Be-One-of- the-Above Parties
by Diane WileyPosted on September 1, 2010 | 1 CommentI remember the first time it happened – we were in a pretty big city in the Midwest, federal court, well before 9-11. Some of the jurors were from outside the city. The defendant was Pakistani and there was a question from the judge (no attorney questioning allowed) about whether... -
Working for Justice in Neshoba County, Mississippi
by Beth FoleyPosted on September 1, 2010 | 1 CommentAndy Sheldon and Beth Bonora discuss trial consulting in this landmark case "Neshoba: The Price of Freedom" is a newly released documentary by Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano that focuses on one of the most notorious crimes of the Civil Rights Era and the long road to justice that followed. The... -
What We Do (and Don’t) Know about Race and Jurors
by Samuel R. Sommers, Ph.D.Posted on July 1, 2010 | 1 CommentTen years ago, my colleague, Phoebe Ellsworth, and I published two articles describing the influence of a criminal defendant's race on jurors' decision-making (Sommers & Ellsworth, 2000; 2001). These papers were based on experimental simulations in which we asked mock jurors to read and evaluate trial summaries. In one version... -
Tattoos, Tolerance, Technology, and TMI: Welcome to the land of the Millennials (aka Generation Y)
by Douglas L. Keene, Ph.D. and Rita Handrich, Ph.D.Posted on July 1, 2010 | 4 CommentsSee the follow-up to this article: Between Coddling and Contempt: Managing and Mentoring Millennials in the September 2010 issue of The Jury Expert. For Baby Boomers, the don't-trust-anyone-over-30 lyrics to "My Generation" by Pete Townshend of The Who (1965) bespoke the generation gap. Pete wrote these lyrics at the... -
The Convoluted Spectrum of White Guilt Reactions: A Review of Emerging Literature
by Alexis RobinsonPosted on July 1, 2010 | No CommentsPsychologists define white guilt as the dejection or compunction that Whites feel when they witness a discriminatory act or observe the consequences of a racist act (Steele, 1990). White guilt manifests itself in common settings and every day interpersonal encounters. Feelings of white guilt may arise from the simplest realizations... -
Less Bad News: What Defense Advocates Can Learn from the Duke Lacrosse Case
by Robert M. Entman, Ph.D. and Kimberly A. Gross, Ph.D.Posted on May 1, 2010 | No CommentsIn covering the infamous Duke lacrosse case, journalists received enormous criticism for the way they allegedly convicted the defendants in the press. Yet the practice is hardly unusual. Standard media routines and practices often contribute to undermining the presumption of innocence, particularly with high profile crimes. Still, in other respects... -
Panic Over the Unknown: America Hates Atheists
by Douglas L. Keene, Ph.D. and Rita R. Handrich, Ph.D.Posted on March 1, 2010 | 14 Comments"If 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' was remade today, the 'shocking' guest would no longer be a highly accomplished, educated and sophisticated black man (Sidney Poitier) but a highly accomplished, educated and sophisticated atheist."1 "The prisons are probably filled with people who don't have any kind of a spiritual or...