Sentence examples for jury size from inspiring English sources

The court added that the jury size was too small.

"Jury Size and Composition: An Economic Approach," in Martin S. Feldstein and Robert P. Inman, editors, The Economics of Public Services, The Macmillan Press Ltd., London, 1977.

Using this number and considering also the interest of the state in minimizing the number of guilty who go free, it was possible to calculate an optimal jury size and the majority required to convict.

In the latter case, the probability of a correct majority decision is less than each individual's probability of a correct vote and converges to 0, as the jury size increases.

The theorem's conclusion can also be undermined in less extreme cases (Berend and Paroush 1998), for instance when each individual's reliability, though above 1/2, is an exponentially decreasing function approaching 1/2 with increasing jury size (List 2003a).

For policy makers now considering further shrinking the jury size or loosening unanimity rules to speed up civil trials, there may be real civic costs to those changes.

Maybe juries will size up damages in the billions.

The jury has decided: size matters!

Instead, the grand jury said, dot- sized purple decals were stuck to the patient's nursing record cards as a signal to the medical and nursing staffs that the hospital's emergency Code 33 should not be called when a terminally ill patient went into arrest.

The Republicans want to place caps on the size of jury awards.

Instead of closing down just one hospital, or even a handful, they are trying to halt nonemergency care statewide on Monday, or possibly longer -- and some say until they get state legislators to limit the size of jury awards in malpractice lawsuits.