Runaway Jurors

14 Train Our Jurors

Lay jurors are often legally and logically unprepared for trial. In response, it is recommended that jurors receive training in how to make better legal decisions. This chapter suggests that jurors should receive comprehensive training in critical legal doctrines and in how to reason with legal evidence. Jurors who cannot be trained to achieve minimal levels of competence (in the law or in basi...

Pre-Trial Education of Jurors

Teen Court Jurors’ Sentencing Decisions

Teen Courts provide a forum in which juvenile offenders are sentenced by their peers. This system, based on principles of restorative justice, serves as an alternative to the traditional juvenile justice system. Sentencing options typically include restitution, community service, jury duty, apologies, attendance at educational workshops, and tours of correctional facilities. Previous research h...

Runaway quarks.

When heavy nuclei collide, a quark-gluon plasma is formed. The plasma is subject to strong electric field due to the charge of the colliding nuclei. The electric field can influence the behavior of the quark-gluon plasma. In particular, we might observe an increased number of quarks moving in the direction of that field, as we do in the standard electron-ion plasma. In this paper we show that t...

Radon Risk Communication with Attorneys and Jurors

Attorneys and jurors will have their own ideas of radon health risks before hearing any testimony. For most people, without radiation training, radon is mysterious because they cannot detect the presence of radon with their five senses. For some, radon may not represent a significant danger because people do not see any direct evidence of lung cancer due to radon. For others, radon as a radioac...