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SUMMARY:Statistical Measures and Methods Used to Analyze the Representativ
 eness of Jury Pools - Joseph Gastwirth (George Washington University )
DTSTART:20160830T140000Z
DTEND:20160830T144000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In the Castaneda v. Partida (1977) case the U.S. Supreme Court
  accepted  statistical hypothesis testing for the analysis of data on the 
 demographic mix  of the individuals called for jury service over a period 
 of time. Two years  later\, in Duren v. Missouri (1979)\, the Court noted 
 that in order for  defendant&rsquo\;s to receive a fair trial the system u
 sed to summon individuals for  jury service should produce jury pools with
  a demographic mix similar to that of  the jury-eligible members of the co
 mmunity. This talk will review the commonly  used measures and methods and
  illustrate their use. A novel measure called  disparity of the risk that 
 was adopted by the Supreme Court of Michigan will be  described and shown 
 to be extremely stringent. It will be seen that in a  jurisdiction where m
 inorities form eight percent of the jury-eligible  population\, jury pools
  with a minority representation less than four percent  will be deemed rep
 resentative by this measure. If time permits an altern ative  measure of t
 he effect of minority under-representation on the chances of a  defendant 
 obtaining a &ldquo\;fair&rdquo\; jury will be recommended.&nbsp\;
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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