Main Title: |
Secrets of the jury room / Malcolm Knox. |
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Author: |
Knox, Malcolm, 1966-
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Imprint: |
Random House, c2005. |
Collation: |
xix, 352 p. : notes, bib., index, pbk ; 24 cm. |
Summary: |
Introduction: a ticking in the box -- 1. The fall of the House of Rusher -- 2. Panel beating or how jurors and lawyers cull the pool -- 3. Challenging the challenge -- 4. The foreman was a storeman -- 5. The defence opens -- 6. Meet your new family -- 7. Let them eat fruit: how juries subsist -- 8. Undercover: 'Spike' in silverwater -- 9. Children overboard on the lower ground floor or the world as seen from a room without windows -- 10. The star witness: Les is more -- 11. Survivor XII: the jury room -- 12. 'Ladies and gentlement ... I call Steven Rusher' -- 13. Summing up or how jurors are sold a bill of goods for men in gowns -- 14. One angry man: how juries deliberate -- 15. Twelve angry suggestions -- 16. Going home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Text acknowledments -- Index. |
Subject: |
Jury and juries Jury duty Law courts Law and lawyers
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ISBN: |
174051162X (pbk.) |
Notes: |
Includes index. "Inside the black box of criminal justice in Australia" -- Front cover.
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