Postconviction Review of Jury Discrimination: Measuring the Effects of Juror Race on Jury Decisions
Postconviction Review of Jury Discrimination: Measuring the Effects of Juror Race on Jury Decisions
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陪审团歧视的定罪后审查：衡量陪审员种族对陪审团决策的影响
DOI：
10.2307/1289642
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发表时间：
1993
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
N. King
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作者：
N. King
1992年春天，一个没有黑人成员的州陪审团宣告四名白人警察无罪，他们被控过度使用武力约束黑人驾驶者罗德尼·金。许多美国人在电视上无情地观看了警察在81秒内挥动61根警棍的录像，他们觉得无罪释放令人难以置信有些人认为，如果陪审团中有黑人的话，被告就会被定罪其他人认为这种假设是种族主义的；他们反驳说，假设判决可能取决于陪审员的种族是不允许的还有一些人认为没人能做到
In the spring of 1992, a state jury with no black members acquitted four white police officers charged with using excessive force to restrain black motorist Rodney King. Many Americans who had watched the relentlessly televised videotape of the officers delivering sixty-one baton blows in eighty-one seconds found the acquittals incredible.2 Some suggested that the defendants would have been convicted if blacks had been on the jury.3 Others considered such assumptions racist; presuming that a verdict may depend on the race of the jurors, they countered, is impermissible.4 Still others argued that no one can