Community sentiment still shapes jury verdicts despite narrowed jury authority

Evidence

Although the province of the jury diminished when judges were assigned the responsibility to determine the applicable law, the change has not altogether eliminated jury nullification. Community sentiment still may affect jury verdicts. During the 1920s, juries often refused to convict ordinary citizens who had run afoul of the Prohibition laws. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1415

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the Standing Directive concern that claims about judicial process be concrete and causal. — connects to: Individual juror bias studies may not predict deliberating jury verdicts — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 913; Even trivial group distinctions produce in-group favoritism in juror verdicts — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 856; Individual juror decisions do not simply aggregate into deliberating jury outcomes — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 913 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Individual juror bias studies may not predict deliberating jury verdicts #contradicts (0.95) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 913
• Minority jurors’ low system trust may shape verdict decisions #corroborates (0.95)
• Jurors decide cases based on personal sympathy rather than facts #corroborates (0.95) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1451
• Missing minority jurors changes jury deliberation beyond just verdict discrimination #corroborates (0.95) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 842
• Juries may convict of lesser crimes than evidence warrants through sympathy #corroborates (0.95) — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 1741
• Even trivial group distinctions produce in-group favoritism in juror verdicts #corroborates (0.90) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 856
• Individual juror decisions do not simply aggregate into deliberating jury outcomes #corroborates (0.90) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 913
• Minority distrust of the legal system may shape their verdicts #corroborates (0.90) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 914
• Jury verdicts can convict the innocent when racial bias dominates #qualifies (0.85) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 34