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The jury crisis : what's wrong with jury trials and how we can save them / Drury R. Sherrod.

by Sherrod, Drury R., author.

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Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]

Jury -- United States.

9781538109533 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

1538109530 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

xx, 171 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction : What's wrong with juries? -- Triers of fact -- Supplying facts in early juries -- How jurors use facts to tell stories -- Why jurors prefer stories over facts -- Jury selection : identifying who will tell which stories -- Jury selection in a product-liability lawsuit -- Jury deliberations : the stories widen -- Jury deliberations in real trials -- Storytellers in robes -- The biases behind judges' stories -- The vanishing jury -- Trying the jury trial -- Junk the jury or fix the flaws?

"'The Jury Crisis: What's Wrong with Jury Trials and How We Can Save Them' addresses the near collapse of the jury trial in America, its causes, consequences, and cures. Drury Sherrod brings his unique perspective as a social psychologist who became a jury consultant to the reader, applying psychological research to real world trials and explaining why juries have become dysfunctional."--Provided by publisher.

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