Abstract
Some hard facts, as we have just seen, appear to contradict those critics who claim that the jury is incompetent. Judges agree with the jury in four cases out of five, and in the remaining case the disagreement can seldom be attributed to the jurors’ intellectual ineptitude. Yet, that remaining case is troublesome because the jury goes in a direction that is different from that which a learned expert—the judge—would have taken. How do we explain this disagreement? Can we explain it? It is certainly important to make an attempt because opponents of the jury will not have exhausted all of their arguments against it.
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Hans, V.P., Vidmar, N. (1986). Mr. Prejudice or Miss Sympathy: A Thirteenth Juror?. In: Judging the Jury. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6463-2_9
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