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Lawyers and Jurors: Interrogating Voir Dire Strategies by Analyzing Conversations
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies ( IF 2.346 ) Pub Date : 2019-06-27 , DOI: 10.1111/jels.12226
Catherine M. Grosso , Barbara O'Brien

This study of individualized jury selection for 792 potential jurors across 12 North Carolina capital cases, selected with purposive case selection, analyzes the conversations that occur during voir dire to examine the process that produces decisions about who serves on juries. Lawyers question prospective jurors in voir dire partly to gather information about prospective jurors’ ability to decide a case without prejudice. Jury selection, however, suffers from what social scientists call demand characteristics. Demand characteristics provide a respondent with clues about the expected response and interfere with effective information gathering. We identified two characteristics that bear on the presence and strength of demand characteristics: the form and tone of the question. We sorted all 8,583 general legal opinion questions along a four‐step scale by combining these characteristics. We then used time‐series analyses to examine responses to these questions in sequence. Juror responses were longest and most likely to include an affective utterance when the demand characteristics were weaker, and that loquaciousness and affect fell at each step of the scale. An independent qualitative study replicated these findings, and supported the assertion that length and form are valid measures of quality in this context.

中文翻译:

律师与陪审员:通过分析对话审问Voir的谋杀策略

这项针对12个北卡罗莱纳州首例案件的792名潜在陪审员的个性化陪审员选择研究,是根据有针对性的案例选择而进行的,分析了在案发现场期间发生的对话,以检查产生有关由谁担任陪审员的决定的过程。律师向潜在的陪审员提出质疑,部分是为了收集有关潜在陪审员在不偏见的情况下决定案件的能力的信息。然而,陪审团的选择受到社会科学家所谓的需求特征的困扰。需求特征为受访者提供有关预期响应的线索,并干扰有效的信息收集。我们确定了取决于需求特征的存在和强度的两个特征:问题的形式和基调。我们对所有8个进行了排序 结合这些特征,可以分四步进行583项一般法律意见问题。然后,我们使用时间序列分析来依次检查对这些问题的回答。当需求特征较弱时,陪审员的反应最长,并且最有可能包括情感话语,并且自信心和情感在量表的每一步下降。一项独立的定性研究重复了这些发现,并支持这样的主张,即在这种情况下,长度和形式是质量的有效度量。
更新日期:2019-06-27
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