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Supreme Court Rejects Challenges to Florida’s Use of 6-Person Juries in Most Felony Trials Instead of 12

Supreme Court Rejects Challenges to Florida’s Use of 6-Person Juries in Most Felony Trials Instead of 12

A jury room at the Flagler County courthouse. (© FlaglerLive) The U.S.…
Nationalist MSPs (clockwise from top left) Fergus Ewing, Kate Forbes, Christine Graham, Michelle Thomson, Ivan McKee and Annabelle Ewing all chose to side with opposition parties yesterday by abstaining

Not proven: Rebellion over SNP plans to scrap Scotland's third verdict, reduce size of juries and change rape trials

By Jessica North For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 18:12 EDT, 23…
A new series by Channel 4 , The Jury: Murder Trial, dramatises a trial

PETER HITCHENS: What Channel 4 gets completely wrong about juries. And why the judiciary's left-wing bias would run riot if they were scrapped

Without a jury, a criminal court is just a roomful of paid…
The Jury: Murder Trial, which airs at 9pm tonight, recreates an entire, real murder trial from the original transcripts in front of 24 jurors to see if they can reach the same verdict when presented with the same evidence

Will justice be served? Inside the cutting-edge TV experiment to see whether we can trust our juries reach the same verdict in 'murder' trial of man who kills his wife but claims he lost control

A Channel 4 programme set to air tonight will examine the jury…
Exclusive: J6 Prisoner Says Poll Proves No Unbiased Juries Possible in D.C.

Exclusive: J6 Prisoner Says Poll Proves No Unbiased Juries Possible in D.C.

J6 prisoner Jake Lang says the Washington, D.C., “jury pool is unbelievably…
Her final text contained just a single word, but it haunts Jean Hanlon's (pictured) family to this day. 'Help', the message read.

Could rape trials ditch juries in a bid to raise the conviction rate?

The prospect of jury-less trials in rape cases has been floated by…