Majority Verdicts

Majority Verdicts
Author: New South Wales. Law Reform Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2005
Genre: Criminal procedure
ISBN: 9780734726193

It is generally considered that the requirement of unanimity results in more hung juries than does the alternative system of requiring only a majority of jurors to agree on a verdict. What constitutes a majority differs between jurisdictions that have embraced the concept, and may also depend on the type of offence being tried. This Report examines arguments for and against preserving the unanimity rule.

Impeachment

Impeachment
Author: Raoul Berger
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1974
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780674444782

The little understood yet great power of impeachment lodged in the Congress is dissected in this text through history by Raoul Berger, a leading scholar on the subject. He sheds new light on whether impeachment is limited to indictable crimes, on whether there is jurisdiction to impeach for misconduct outside office, and on whether impeachment must precede indictment. Berger also finds firm footing in contesting the views of one-time Judge Robert Bork and President Nixon's lawyer, James St Clair.