Jury Nullification

by Conrad, Clay S.

• ISBN13: 9780890897027
• ISBN10: 0890897026
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-18
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

Table of Contents

Table of Cases	ix
Preface	xvii
Introduction	3	(10)
What Jury Independence Is All About	7	(6)
The Origins of the Doctrine	13	(32)
Pre-Revolutionary History	13	(11)
Bushell's Case: Recognition for Jury Independence	24	(4)
Fox's Libel Act: British Juries Change the Law	28	(17)
Revolutionary Times	45	(20)
Georgia v. Brailsford: A Unanimous Supreme Court Instruction	45	(8)
The Fries Case and the Chase Impeachment Trial	53	(7)
Jury Independence in the State Courts	60	(5)
The Development of the Modern View	65	(52)
Resolving Tensions Between Judge and Jury	65	(10)
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Spooner's Influence on Jury Independence	75	(13)
State Legislative, Judicial, and Constitutional Developments	88	(11)
Sparf et al.: The Supreme Court Rejects Jury Independence	99	(9)
Vices, Crimes, and the National Prohibition Act	108	(9)
The Modern Era	117	(26)
State Legislative, Judicial, and Constitutional Developments Revisited	117	(7)
The Vietnam War Cases: A Preference for Sua Sponte Nullification	124	(19)
The Current Debate	143	(24)
Why Juries Still Refuse to Convict	143	(11)
Political Developments and Renewed Interest in Independent Juries	154	(11)
Model Fully Informed Jury Act Legislation	165	(2)
Scapegoating The Jury	167	(38)
The Bigoted Jury: Acquittals in Lynchings and Civil Rights Murder Cases	167	(19)
The Lynching Cases	171	(10)
The Civil Rights Murders	181	(5)
Can Racist Nullification be Discouraged or Controlled?	186	(4)
The Impartial Jury: Black Victims, Black Defendants, and Black Jurors	190	(8)
Inside the Jury Room: Can Jurors Act Responsibly When Race is an Issue?	198	(7)
The Capital Jury	205	(34)
Early Juror Discretion in Capital Cases	205	(7)
Furman and its Progeny: Resolving the Disparities in Capital Sentencing	212	(10)
The Death-Qualified Jury	222	(8)
Penry and the Requirement of Individualized Sentencing	230	(9)
The Obligations of Jury Duty	239	(28)
Understanding the Juror's Oath	239	(4)
The Juror's Oath in Early American History	243	(3)
What's a Juror to Do?	246	(10)
The Context of the Juror's Oath	256	(5)
Other Obligations Jurors Face	261	(6)
The Lawyer's Challenge	267	(30)
Empowering the Jury	267	(4)
Theories and Themes of the Nullification Case	271	(3)
Voir Dire	274	(5)
Opening Statement	279	(3)
Presentation of Evidence	282	(3)
Closing Argument	285	(4)
Reconstruction of Closing Arguments in the Rodger Sless Trial	289	(8)
Summary	297	(8)
The Role of the Jury: A Political Question	297	(8)
Postscript	305	(4)
Index	309