Jury Reform Jigsaw
Creating the Jury
- What are the jury source lists
- Repeated juror summons
- Juror privacy [from the press; sequestration]
- Excusing jurors [before and during the trial; fair cross-section, for cause, peremptories
- The social and legal ramifications of failures of jurors to appear
Public Education about the Jury
- Adults
- Students
- Who and how to reach?
- What to teach?
Communications with the Jury
- Orientation
- Instructions
- Pre-Deliberation discussions
- Different kinds of evidence
- Suppression/exclusion of evidence
- Contact with the judge, during and after the trial
Learning Styles of the Jury
- What can jurors be expected to know
- Preliminary statements
- Juror questions and note-taking
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