In the United States, the right to a jury trial is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. The Sixth Amendment states, in part, “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed...

This paper describes the main features of the UvA Trilearn 2002 soccer simulation team. This team is an extension over UvA Trilearn 2001 which participated for the first time at the RoboCup-2001 competition. The main concepts of UvA Trilearn 2001 will be addressed briefly, followed by the improvements introduced in UvA Trilearn 2002. These include the improved localization methods using particl...

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Judge Mark W. Bennett of the Northern District of Iowa calls himself a “true believer” of implicit bias, having instructed jurors on this subject for more than 8 years from the bench. He has developed a set of jury instructions to educate jurors on the existence of their biases and holds them accountable by signing their name consenting to be fair during trial. To emphasize the importance of th...

William Neal Moore was indicted by a grand jury in Jefferson County, Georgia, for the April 2, 1974 malice murder and armed robbery of Fredger Stapleton, an elderly black man and the uncle of an acquaintance of Mr. Moore. At a hearing conducted before Judge Walter C. McMillan, Jr. in the Superior Court of Jefferson County on June 4, 1974, Mr. Moore waived trial by jury with respect to both guil...

IN United States v. Consolidated Laundries Corp.' the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has expanded the scope of the public prosecutor's duty to secure a fair trial to defendants in criminal proceedings. A new trial was ordered on the finding that material evidence had been "negligently suppressed." Consolidated arose as an antitrust prosecution against a number of linen supply companies...

Much of the interest in empirical studies of judges lies in the comparison of actual to ideal behavior. When we ask what makes a good judge or whether a judge rightly decided a case, we implicitly compare the judge's decisions to a normative standard. In some instances, the content of the normative standard is uncontroversial and its application straightforward. Hence, a trial judge who sentenc...