Juries

Question 1

_____________ Decide facts from trial evidence presented and render a verdict

Answer 1

Juries

Question 2

______________ are discouraged in Canada

Answer 2

Hung juries

Question 3

_________________ are relatively minor offences

Answer 3

Summary offences

Question 4

_________________ are more serious offences (e.g. murder)

Answer 4

Indictable offences

Question 5

_________________ are charges that the crown can choose to prosecute as a summary conviction or indictable offences.

Answer 5

Hybrid offences

Question 6

__________________ don’t have a jury

Answer 6

Summary offences

Question 7

If the defendant is _____________ information is collected e.g. criminal record, psychiatric assessment

Answer 7

Guilty

Question 8

In Ontario, to be a juror, you have to be on the _________________

Answer 8

Voter’s list

Question 9

_____________________ cannot serve as jurors.

Answer 9

Officers, elected officials, lawyers, judges, doctors, and veterinarians (in rural communities)

Question 10

If the jury is impartial, the judge can ________________________.

Answer 10

Change the venue, call for adjournment, or challenge for cause

Question 11

Predictors of how a jury finds a case is the ______________________.

Answer 11

Strength of the evidence

Question 12

The ________________ is when the Judge instructs the jury to ignore info.

Answer 12

Backfire effect

Question 13

Pre-trial publicity has _____________________.

Answer 13

Threats to impartiality

Question 14

__________________ is when coverage before trial begins, jury panel assembled

Answer 14

High-profile

Question 15

___________________ is when we are told not to think about something, and it end up becoming the center of our attention

Answer 15

Ironic processes

Question 16

__________________________ is when people are motivated to behave in a way that asserts their independence

Answer 16

Reactance theory

Question 17

______________________ has a strong relationship with conviction and is not admissible for evidence

Answer 17

Criminal history

Question 18

________________________ is the idea that people who are more alike a defendant, might treat them with more leniency

Answer 18

Similarity-leniency hypothesis

Question 19

_____________________ is the idea that as we interact with others, we make quick decisions about them
In general, we look at people like us, and assign them positive characteristics

Answer 19

Social Identity theory

Question 20

The __________________________ studied how similarities effect jurors

Answer 20

Juror-defendant race study

Question 21

What are the 3 phases of group processes in jury decisions?

Answer 21

(1) Orientation
(2) Open conflict
(3) Reconciliation

Question 22

________________ is when the jury goes around and introduces themselves.

Answer 22

Orientation

Question 23

__________________ is when differing views collide and jurors argue

Answer 23

Open conflict

Question 24

___________________ is when the jury all come together and make a unanimous decision

Answer 24

Reconciliation