Presenter: Samantha Lowery
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Gwartney, CJ Pascoe
Presentation Type: Oral
Primary Research Area: Social Science
Major: Sociology
Speed Dating Lady Justice, this thesis examines the predictive devices attorneys use to remove jurors due to shortened selection process in petit trials. This study examines how weight, age, and class are used alongside
the master traits of gender and race to select individuals to be excluded from serving as jurors. The ideal jury is a randomly selected cross section of community members. Their role is to judge the accused, fairly and without bias. The extent to which attorneys remove jurors out of their own biases not the biases of the jurors. A multi-method approach was used, ethnographic research and in-depth interviews. Juries who are selected by using predictive devices can cause bias jurors and faulty convictions.