Toward Criminal Jury Instructions That Jurors Can Understand

Jury Instructions on Witness Identification

Requiring Jury Instructions on Eyewitness Identification Evidence at Federal Criminal Trials

Through the Eyes of Jurors: The Use of Schemas in the Application of "Plain-Language" Jury Instructions

A Model of Jury Decisions Where All Jurors Have the Same Evidence a Model of Jury Decisions Where All Jurors Have the Same Evidence

Under the independence and competence assumptions of Condorcet’s classical jury model, the probability of a correct majority decision converges to certainty as the jury size increases, a seemingly unrealistic result. Using Bayesian networks, we argue that the model’s independence assumption requires that the state of the world (guilty or not guilty) is the latest common cause of all jurors’ vot...

Assessing the Readability of Capital Pattern Jury Instructions