Are Juries Competent to Evaluate Statistical Evidence?

Judges, Juries, and Scientific Evidence

Bayes’s Theorem And Weighing Evidence by Juries

At first sight, there may appear to be little connection between Statistics and Law. On closer inspection it can be seen that the problems they tackle are in many ways identical — although they go about them in very different ways. In a broad sense, each subject can be regarded as concerned with the Interpretation of Evidence. I owe my own introduction to the common ground between the two activ...

Voice disguise by mimicry: deriving statistical articulometric evidence to evaluate claimed impersonation

Voice disguise by impersonation is often used in voice-based crimes by perpetrators who try to evade identification while sounding genuine. Voice evidence from these crimes is analyzed to both detect impersonation, and match the impersonated voice to the natural voice of the speaker to prove its correct ownership. There are interesting situations, however, where a speaker might be confronted wi...

Race, Gender, and Juries: Evidence from North Carolina∗

This paper uses data from felony jury trials in North Carolina to show that (i) the race and gender composition of the randomly selected jury pool has a significant effect on the probability of conviction, (ii) attorneys adjust peremptory challenge strategies in accordance, and (iii) State peremptory challenges have a significant positive impact on the conviction rate when the defendant is a bl...

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