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| The pretrial examination of prospective juror by the judge or opposing lawyers to uncover signs of bias. |
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| A means by which lawyers can exclude a limited number of prospective jurors without the judge's approval. |
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Contrary to popular opinion, women are harsher as trial jurors than men are.
True or False?
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The intuitive approach to jury selection leads to discrimination on the basis of race and other characteristics.
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| Scientific Jury Selection |
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| A method of selecting juries through surveys that yield correlations between demographics and tril relevant attitudes. |
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| A jury selection procedure used in capital cases that permits judges to exclude prospective jurors who say that they would not vote for the death penalty. |
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| The most common methods of execution? |
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Hanging, Shooting, Beheading
in the USA - electrocution, lethal injection, and poisonous gas. |
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Errors in eye witness testimony are the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions.
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True.
75% of all eye witness testimony is incorrect. |
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Without being beaten or threatened, innocent people sometimes confess to crimes they did not commit.
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A person can fool a lie detector test by supressing arousal when questions about the crimes are asked.
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Eyewitnesses find it relatively difficult to recofnize members of a race other than their own.
True or False? |
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| The tendency for the presense of a weapon to draw attention and impair a witness's ability to identify the culprit. |
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| Cross-race identification bias |
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| The tendency for people to have difficulty identifying members of a race other than their own. |
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| the tendency for false post-event misinformation to become integrated into people's memory of an event. |
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The more confident an eyewitness is about an identification, the more accurate he/she is likely to be.
True or False?
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| The jury's power to disregard or nulify the law when it conflicts with personal conceptions of justice. |
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| the tendency for jury deliberation to produce a tilt toward acquittal. |
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| Inconsistency of sentences for the same offense from one judge to another. |
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| a dispute resolution system in which the prosecution and defense present opposing sides of the story. |
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