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Mark Bennett | January 27, 2009

The new edition of the American Society of Trial Consultants The Jury Expert is out. I’ll be paying special attention to Gail Herde’s Take Me to Your Leader: An Examination of Authoritarianism as an Indicator of Juror Bias.
I think authoritarianism might be what I’m trying to get at with this scaled jury question; I [...]

I Want Angry Jurors With Low Self-Esteem

Mark Bennett | November 19, 2008

I’ve started reading the quarterly magazine of the American Society of Trial Consultants, The Jury Expert. It’s right up Defending People readers’ alley; it’s even subtitled “The Art and Science of Litigation Advocacy. I downloaded a stack of issues to carry in my bag for quiet times; there are several treasures in each volume. If [...]