Download This PaperUnraveling the Gordian Knot of Implicit Bias in Jury Selection: The Problem of Judge-Dominated Voir Dire, the Failed Promise of Batson, and Proposed Solutions
24 Pages Posted: 5 Oct 2014
Date Written: 2010
Abstract
An experienced federal district judge discussed his own path in discovering problems of implicit bias, expires problems of implicit bias in jury selection, discusses the failed promise of Batson, and proposed some solutions. The solutions include implicit bias jury instructions that the judge has uses is all criminal and civil cases.
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Bennett, Mark W., Unraveling the Gordian Knot of Implicit Bias in Jury Selection: The Problem of Judge-Dominated Voir Dire, the Failed Promise of Batson, and Proposed Solutions (2010). Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 4, p. 149, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2505424
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