Juries Flashcards
_____________ Decide facts from trial evidence presented and render a verdict
Juries
______________ are discouraged in Canada
Hung juries
_________________ are relatively minor offences
Summary offences
_________________ are more serious offences (e.g. murder)
Indictable offences
_________________ are charges that the crown can choose to prosecute as a summary conviction or indictable offences.
Hybrid offences
__________________ don’t have a jury
Summary offences
If the defendant is _____________ information is collected e.g. criminal record, psychiatric assessment
Guilty
In Ontario, to be a juror, you have to be on the _________________
Voter’s list
_____________________ cannot serve as jurors.
Officers, elected officials, lawyers, judges, doctors, and veterinarians (in rural communities)
If the jury is impartial, the judge can ________________________.
Change the venue, call for adjournment, or challenge for cause
Predictors of how a jury finds a case is the ______________________.
Strength of the evidence
The ________________ is when the Judge instructs the jury to ignore info.
Backfire effect
Pre-trial publicity has _____________________.
Threats to impartiality
__________________ is when coverage before trial begins, jury panel assembled
High-profile
___________________ is when we are told not to think about something, and it end up becoming the center of our attention
Ironic processes
__________________________ is when people are motivated to behave in a way that asserts their independence
Reactance theory
______________________ has a strong relationship with conviction and is not admissible for evidence
Criminal history
________________________ is the idea that people who are more alike a defendant, might treat them with more leniency
Similarity-leniency hypothesis
_____________________ 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
Social Identity theory
The __________________________ studied how similarities effect jurors
Juror-defendant race study
What are the 3 phases of group processes in jury decisions?
(1) Orientation
(2) Open conflict
(3) Reconciliation
________________ is when the jury goes around and introduces themselves.
Orientation
__________________ is when differing views collide and jurors argue
Open conflict
___________________ is when the jury all come together and make a unanimous decision
Reconciliation
