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Jury Selection
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Court
Executive Development Program Papers
The National Center for
State Courts' Institute for Court Management runs an annual Court
Executive Development Program (CEDP). It is designed to "develop
and enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of court
administrators and provide instruction in areas of functional
responsibility associated with court administration." To complete
the third phase of the program, each CEDP student is required to
prepare a comprehensive research paper evaluating a key court function
or proposed activity in his or her home jurisdiction. The papers relating
to this topic are listed below.
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2008
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Tracy L. Smedley.
Beyond
Failure to Appear Notices: A Reexamination of Juror Attitudes in
the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri and an Examination
of Other Techniques to Address Failure to Appear Patterns.
May 2008. A project to determine why failure to appear
amongst jurors in Jackson County Mississippi is so common.
The purpose of the document was to discover a manner of
improving this troubling trend. The analysis showed that
there is a strong need to improve juror attitudes towards civic
duty.
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2007
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David W. Slayton.
An
Analysis of the Effective Use of Jurors in Lubbock County.
May 2007. Lubbock County (TX) had a rather low rate of
juror yield -- 25.8% -- because of a high undeliverable rate for
summons, exemptions, and postponements. The paper
addresses how to make the jury system more effective and more
cost-efficient for the county courts.
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2002
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Michael Devereaux. Protecting
the Juror’s Right to Privacy. May 9, 2002.
The research question investigated was: “Is the juror’s
right to privacy adequately protected in the 22nd Judicial
Circuit of Missouri.”
Melissa Fowler-Bradley. Should
Civil Investigations Be Performed by the Grand Jury in
California. May 9, 2002. This paper examines the civil grand jury process in the State of
California for purposes of determining if civil investigations,
particularly those of local government, should continue under
the current structure, or if statutory reform is needed.
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2001 |
Teresa L.
Steelman. An
Examination of Juror Attitudes and Failure to Appeal Patterns.
May 2001. An attempt to find patterns among jurors who fail to appear in
hopes of creating remedial efforts to combat this problem, thus
lessening the number of no-show jurors.
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1970s |
Jo Ann Bennett.
Juror
Selection in Anoka County, Minnesota: A Critical Evaluation.
May 1979. In Anoka County, the source list of potential
jurors is composed of registered voters on the county's Voter
Registration List. Concerned about whether the Voter
Registration List reflects the county's demographics, the author
investigates this claim and determines whether the juries in the
county are accurate reflections of its population. (KFM5942
B46 1979)
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