The Impact of Jury Instruction Formatting and Insanity Defense Consistency on Juror Knowledge and Decision-Making
Past literature has indicated that jury instructions are not written in ways that result in optimal juror comprehension, and can be improved through various ways of simplification. Prototypes of the insanity defense have also been found to influence juror decision-making. Additionally, individual fa...
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2015
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Online Access: | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/549 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1575&context=scripps_theses |