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jury,
n a certain number of citizens selected according to law and sworn to inquire of certain matters of fact and to declare the truth on evidence submitted to them.


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It also includes coverage of the American criminal jury system, jury representativeness, death penalty judgments, DNA, an analysis of jury size, hung juries, jury instruction on damage awards, punitive damages, jury competence, story-mediated models of jury decision making in civil litigation, case studies of pre- and mid-trial prejudice in criminal and civil litigation, and the jury deliberation process.
She suggested instead a rule that would "make the jury size the same whether a litigant is in state or federal court in any given jurisdiction"--essentially conforming federal rules to state jury practice.
The claimed Sixth Amendment value was, of course, exactly the one that the Court had identified in its jury size and jury unanimity cases - jury representativeness.
 
 
 
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