THE SLIPPERY SLOPE: Jury Size and Jury Verdict Requirements—Legal and Social Science Approaches |
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| Authors: | BERNARD GROFMAN |
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| Institution: | Associate Professor of Social Psychology and Political Science in the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. He is the author of articles focusing on models of collective decision-making, which have appeared in scholarly journals such as Behavioral Science;, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, and Public Choice. |
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| Abstract: | We review six recent U.S. Supreme Court cases dealing with the constitutionality of decision-making by juries with fewer than twelve members or operating under verdict requirements less stringent than unanimity. For the issues raised in each of these cases, we contrast the views of Supreme Court justices with data drawn from social science research and from statistical models of group decision processes. |
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