Empty votes in jury deliberations

Harvard Law Review

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1262-

  Taylor Thompson, Kim ^a  

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EID: 0042229411     PISSN: 0017811X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1342350     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. See, e.g., Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522, 537 (1975) (prohibiting the exclusion of female jurors); Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303, 308 (1880) (prohibiting the exclusion of African American jurors).
2. See, e.g., J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127, 135 (1994) (holding that peremptory challenges exercised against women require "heightened scrutiny"); Georgia v. McCollum, 505 U.S. 42, 59 (1992) (holding that the Equal Protection Clause "prohibits a criminal defendant from engaging in purposeful discrimination on the ground of race in the exercise of peremptory challenges"); Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 89 (1986) (ruling that "the Equal Protection Clause forbids the prosecutor to challenge potential jurors solely on account of their race or on the assumption that black jurors as a group will be unable impartially to consider the State's case against a black defendant").
3. See, e.g., RANDALL KENNEDY, RACE, CRIME AND THE LAW 232 (1997) (observing "a substantial 'underrepresentation' of blacks" on juries); Hiroshi Fukurai & Edgar W. Butler, Sources of Racial Disenfranchisement in the Jury and Jury Selection System, 13 NAT'L BLACK L.J. 238, 264 (1994) (noting that people of color and the poorly educated are underrepresented on juries in Orange County, California); Nancy J. King, Racial Jurymandering: Cancer or Cure? A Contemporary Review of Affirmative Action in Jury Selection, 68 N.Y.U. L. REV. 707, 712 (1993) ("[J]ury selection policies that have survived constitutional challenge continue to produce juries and jury pools with percentages of African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities that are smaller than the percentages of these groups in the adult population of the jury district.").
4. See, e.g., RANDALL KENNEDY, RACE, CRIME AND THE LAW 232 (1997) (observing "a substantial 'underrepresentation' of blacks" on juries); Hiroshi Fukurai & Edgar W. Butler, Sources of Racial Disenfranchisement in the Jury and Jury Selection System, 13 NAT'L BLACK L.J. 238, 264 (1994) (noting that people of color and the poorly educated are underrepresented on juries in Orange County, California); Nancy J. King, Racial Jurymandering: Cancer or Cure? A Contemporary Review of Affirmative Action in Jury Selection, 68 N.Y.U. L. REV. 707, 712 (1993) ("[J]ury selection policies that have survived constitutional challenge continue to produce juries and jury pools with percentages of African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities that are smaller than the percentages of these groups in the adult population of the jury district.").
5. See, e.g., RANDALL KENNEDY, RACE, CRIME AND THE LAW 232 (1997) (observing "a substantial 'underrepresentation' of blacks" on juries); Hiroshi Fukurai & Edgar W. Butler, Sources of Racial Disenfranchisement in the Jury and Jury Selection System, 13 NAT'L BLACK L.J. 238, 264 (1994) (noting that people of color and the poorly educated are underrepresented on juries in Orange County, California); Nancy J. King, Racial Jurymandering: Cancer or Cure? A Contemporary Review of Affirmative Action in Jury Selection, 68 N.Y.U. L. REV. 707, 712 (1993) ("[J]ury selection policies that have survived constitutional challenge continue to produce juries and jury pools with percentages of African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities that are smaller than the percentages of these groups in the adult population of the jury district.").
6. See, e.g., NATIONAL JURY PROJECT, JURYWORK: SYSTEMATIC TECHNIQUES (Elissa Krauss & Beth Bonora eds., 1999) ("American jury systems tend to overrepresent white, middle-aged, suburban, middle-class people and underrepresent other groups."); Cynthia A. Williams,