The triumph of virtue : the trial of Miss Mary Ann Tocker, who plead her own cause, for an alleged libel on R. Gurney, Jun. ... to which is prefixed a letter to Miss Tocker, and to which is added an address to jury-men on their duties as jurors, and especially on trials for criminal libel /

"From the third New-York edition."

Report of the trial of Mrs. Susannah Wright : for publishing, in his shop, the writings and correspondences of R. Carlile, before Chief Justice Abbott, and a special jury, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, London, on Monday, July 8, 1822. Indictment at the instance of the Society for the Suppression of Vice.

In: The trials with the defences at large of Mrs. Jane Carlile. London : R. Carlile, 1825.

Rapport du jury institué pour le jugement des prix décennaux.

Mode of access: Internet.

De l'établissement du jury en Algérie /

Mode of access: Internet.

Bridge-street banditti, versus the press : report of the trial of Mary-Anne Carlile, for publishing A New-year's address to the reformers of Great Britain written by Richard Carlile; at the instance of the Constitutional Association, before Mr. Justice Best, and a special jury at the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, London, July 24, 1821. With the nobel and effectual speech of Mr. Cooper, in defence, at large.

In: The Trials with the defences at large of Mrs. Jane Carlile. London : R. Carlile, 1825.

The trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M., before the lord chief justice of the court of common sense, and a special jury /

Plates attributed to Robert Cruikshank.

The trial of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. at Leicester, on Thursday, March 23d, 1820, before Mr. Justice Best, and a special jury ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Rapports du Jury international.

Mode of access: Internet.

Brickwood's Sackett on Instructions to juries; containing a treatise on jury trials and appeals with forms of approved instructions and charges annotated; also erroneous instructions with comment of the court in condemning them ...

Paged continuously.

Rapports du Jury international,

At head of title: Ministère du commerce, de l'industrie et des colonies. Exposition universelle internationale de 1889 à Paris.

Fixed or variable noise in contrast discrimination? The jury's still out

The ability to distinguish one visual stimulus from another slightly different one depends on the variability of their internal representations. In a recent paper on human visual-contrast discrimination, Kontsevich et al (2002 Vision Research 42 1771 - 1784) re-considered the long-standing question whether the internal noise that limits discrimination is fixed (contrast-invariant) or variable (contrast-dependent). They tested discrimination performance for 3 cycles deg-1 gratings over a wide range of incremental contrast levels at three masking contrasts, and showed that a simple model with an expansive response function and response-dependent noise could fit the data very well. Their conclusion - that noise in visual-discrimination tasks increases markedly with contrast - has profound implications for our understanding and modelling of vision. Here, however, we re-analyse their data, and report that a standard gain-control model with a compressive response function and fixed additive noise can also fit the data remarkably well. Thus these experimental data do not allow us to decide between the two models. The question remains open. [Supported by EPSRC grant GR/S74515/01]

Improving civil jury decision-making: Evidentiary and procedural issues

The civil jury has been under attack in recent years for being unreliable and incompetent. Considering the myriad causes for poor civil juror decision-making, the current investigation explores both procedural and evidentiary issues that impact juror's decisions. Specifically, the first phase of this dissertation examines how jurors (mis)use evidence pertaining to the litigants when determining liability and awarding damages. After investigating how jurors utilize evidence, the focus shifts to exploring the utility of procedural reforms designed to improve decision-making (specifically revising the instructions on the laws in the case and bifurcating the damage phases of the trial). Using the results from the first two phases of the research, the final study involves manipulating pieces of evidence related to the litigants while exploring the effects that revising the judicial instructions have on the utilization of evidence in particular and on decision-making in general. ^ This dissertation was run on-line, allowing participants to access the study materials at their convenience. After giving consent, participants read the scenario of a fictitious product liability case with the litigant manipulations incorporated into the summary. Participants answered several attitudinal, case-specific, and comprehension questions, and were instructed to find in favor of one side and award any damages they felt warranted. Exploratory factor analyses, Probit and linear regressions, and path analyses were used to analyze the data (M-plus and SPSS were the software packages used to conduct the analyses). Results indicated that misuse of evidence was fairly frequent, though the mock jurors also utilized evidence appropriately. Although the results did not support bifurcation as a viable procedural reform, revising the judicial instructions did significantly increase comprehension rates. Trends in the data suggested that better decision-making occurred when the revised instructions were used, thus providing empirical support for this procedural reform as a means of improving civil jury decision-making. Implications for actual trials and attorneys are discussed. ^