The presence of defendants in the jury and its effectiveness
The presence of the defendant’s in the trial is believed that it is the right for the defendant’s and intended to keep the trials fair and objective. According to several studies the live jury increases the accuracy of decision, cost effective, and time saver for the judge’s. The jurors’ might have affected by the appearance, beliefs, biases, and perception of the defendant often makes a difference in judgments even though the study shows its effectiveness. Some research is being done on this matter and as a result, people perceived defendants, no guilt on the defendant appearance, class, age, gender, and race.
The Fifth Amendment allows the defendant not to "be compelled in …show more content…
There are different cases we can use the live jury-trial or the paper-based decision, such as early case which is preferred to live jury for the clarity reason, later case better to present paper work and is low cost, questionable credibility disputes instead live presentation it is more accurate to present paper proof, and the court may allow a brief statement from each party before issuing its decision. After all the paper presentation is less cost than a live jury.
The jury-trials system is time consuming. According to the study a trial by jury might take two to three times more time required when it compared to the trail by the judge. The reason that the jury causes a great waste of time is the jurors are an ordinary people from the community, they do not know about the courtroom procedure and language used in the courtroom. The jurors can mislead with the judge’s instruction and give unfair decision. The jury are unfitted to determine the issues in they come in the courtroom and they might resemble to the lawyer’s idea than they thought of the …show more content…
Most jurors believe that the adult defendants should punished harshly than the younger one. They believe that the older defendants should take more responsibility than the younger defendants. Also the study analyzes the age group between the teenager such as, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen and the adults eighteen, nineteen, and twenty; the teenage had an easy way out that the adults. The person with low social class and older age will get harsh punishment followed by a person with low social class and young age.
Since juries and judges are people, and people have independent thoughts and their decisions may often be biased. Many studies have shown that juries are influenced by gender. the study on gender and the length of sentencing found that there was no gender difference in sentencing except for women with dependent children; these women were given lighter sentences than both men and women without dependent children. However, the fact the higher guilt ratings for male defendants when compared to female defendants. From the available literature there seems to be some debate over whether males or females are more likely to be found guilty. The majority of the research done so far supports the views that the male defendants are more likely to be found
The presence of the defendant’s in the trial is believed that it is the right for the defendant’s and intended to keep the trials fair and objective. According to several studies the live jury increases the accuracy of decision, cost effective, and time saver for the judge’s. The jurors’ might have affected by the appearance, beliefs, biases, and perception of the defendant often makes a difference in judgments even though the study shows its effectiveness. Some research is being done on this matter and as a result, people perceived defendants, no guilt on the defendant appearance, class, age, gender, and race.
The Fifth Amendment allows the defendant not to "be compelled in …show more content…
There are different cases we can use the live jury-trial or the paper-based decision, such as early case which is preferred to live jury for the clarity reason, later case better to present paper work and is low cost, questionable credibility disputes instead live presentation it is more accurate to present paper proof, and the court may allow a brief statement from each party before issuing its decision. After all the paper presentation is less cost than a live jury.
The jury-trials system is time consuming. According to the study a trial by jury might take two to three times more time required when it compared to the trail by the judge. The reason that the jury causes a great waste of time is the jurors are an ordinary people from the community, they do not know about the courtroom procedure and language used in the courtroom. The jurors can mislead with the judge’s instruction and give unfair decision. The jury are unfitted to determine the issues in they come in the courtroom and they might resemble to the lawyer’s idea than they thought of the …show more content…
Most jurors believe that the adult defendants should punished harshly than the younger one. They believe that the older defendants should take more responsibility than the younger defendants. Also the study analyzes the age group between the teenager such as, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen and the adults eighteen, nineteen, and twenty; the teenage had an easy way out that the adults. The person with low social class and older age will get harsh punishment followed by a person with low social class and young age.
Since juries and judges are people, and people have independent thoughts and their decisions may often be biased. Many studies have shown that juries are influenced by gender. the study on gender and the length of sentencing found that there was no gender difference in sentencing except for women with dependent children; these women were given lighter sentences than both men and women without dependent children. However, the fact the higher guilt ratings for male defendants when compared to female defendants. From the available literature there seems to be some debate over whether males or females are more likely to be found guilty. The majority of the research done so far supports the views that the male defendants are more likely to be found