Jurors, like everyone else, are not impartial. Name the four types of bias faced by jurors, and explain two in depth.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: As outlined in the text, there are four types of juror prejudice: interest, specific, generic, and normative prejudice.
First, interest prejudice refers to a juror having a particular interest or stake in the outcome of a trial. Second, specific prejudice occurs when the juror holds attitudes or beliefs that might interfere with his or her ability to be impartial in a particular case. Specific prejudice might arise from exposure to pretrial publicity presented in the media that biases the juror’s judgment of the case. Third, generic prejudice refers to possessing general attitudes (e.g., racist views) that would interfere with an unbiased evaluation of the evidence. Finally, normative prejudice refers to a juror believing that there is such strong community sentiment supporting a particular outcome of the case that his or her ability to decide the case impartially based on the evidence becomes compromised in favor of the perceived normative attitude.
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