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the court of law. In every jury trial, the lawyers always begin a cases with the process of selecting the jurors. Juries is define as a group of people who are members of the community and are chose to give a verdict in a legal case. Jury duty is mandatory for all United States citizens (White, Black, Male or Female). To fully understand how important the jury selection is for the criminal justice system, we need to first understand the process of jury selection. Jury members have an important role;

convicted of rape, had absolutely no chance of a fair trial. There is proof of this in the time period in which it occurred as well as evidence from the novel itself. Tom Robinson had an unfair trial because it was his word against the Ewell’s, a white, trashy family. To Kill A Mockingbird took place in the 1930’s, a time that was enormously charged with racial tension. One example of this is the existence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Even though the KKK was in a time of decline in the 1930’s

United States and most predominantly the criminal justice system. Racial tension in America is often thought of as being white versus black, even though that is not in fact the case. African-Americans view the system as favoring whites while trying to keep them at the bottom. While whites claim that the criminal justice system is colorblind, blacks clearly do not feel this way; whites underestimate the racial divide in the criminal justice system (Bikel, 2005). The highly publicized OJ Simpson case is

black man in a rape trial as black lawyers risked physical injury or even death by doing so. They were run out of towns and physically assaulted if they represented black men accused of any crime by white people. The situation was similar for white lawyers. As Banks says, "In real life, the few local white lawyers who represented black clients often suffered economic loss as well as social isolation. Merely speaking out for equal justice was fraught with danger". However, it

The United States Jury System is defined as a system that makes a decision on a court case on the basis of evidence that was submitted to the court. Juries can be seen as early on the Magna Carta and in Athens, in which peers would gather and make a verdict for a person. Every country does juries differently, they choose people differently, and they make different types of decisions. Some courts are less strict on juries, some even do not care if people on the jury have personal connections to the

Jury nullification is when a jury acquits a defendant who it believes is guilty of the crime he is charged (Hickey, 2010. p. 370). This is because the jury chose to ignore the facts of the case and the judge instructions, and based his or her decision on personal opinion. If we are going to allow jury nullification we may as well not take up the tax-payer’s money to even take it to trial. Nullification – The act of making a law null and void (nullifying). For example, during prohibition, many juries

Institutionalized Racism, Group Think And Jury Bias Present research proposal aims to build up on prior research on claims of race-based bias found in juries, in actual cases and experiments and further investigate some claims using self-reported and structured questionnaires, before and after mock trials based controlled experiment model. While biases have been contained as far as possible, further research and replication maybe need to fill in the loopholes left out due to the vast

a big issue for Mexican-Americans because they have always been treated as invisible white people in Texas. Supposedly they are citizens of our country, but somehow they were not given equal rights. There were occasions in Texas where a white citizen, for no good cause, shot a Mexican-American unexpectedly. Texas restaurants wouldn’t serve Mexican-Americans. They had separate restrooms and schools between white and Mexican-American. In this essay we will be discussing the case Hernandez v. Texas

In order to prove a point to the jury, Atticus Finch from Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, uses many rhetorical devices in order to show Tom Robinson’s innocence. Even though his speech was heavy on the ethos, Atticus also uses pathos and logos many times. Sadly, everybody knows that Tom Robinson is innocent and did not commit the crime, but because his skin color is black, Tom is simply used as a scapegoat to hide somebody else’s crime. Mayella Ewell, being both physically and emotionally abused

economic freedom of the blacks. First of all, Northern blacks were somewhat free in the area of political