"In most studies and experience, most jurors at the time of the trial don't tend to remember a whole lot."
And young jurors tend to waffle.
One finding: jurors tend to award women significantly more money than men.
First, jurors in capital punishment cases tend to support prosecutors over defendants, the experts said.
Female jurors tend to be most critical.
Seeing Is Really Believing "We're a switched-on, tuned-in, visually-oriented society, and jurors tend to believe what they see," Mr. Mazares said.
Such jurors tend to make up their minds far earlier than others, and by the time they enter the jury room for deliberation they cannot be budged.
While jurors who do end up deliberating a verdict tend to give the system high marks, the general experience has a reputation so awful that it drives away many prospective jurors.
Given that jurors tend to think of memory as more dependable than it is, how can courts use eyewitness testimony and lineup IDs without overemphasizing their reliability?
For the few that survive, jurors tend to find them responsible for their actions and therefore guilty of murder, but some end up detained in secure psychiatric hospitals indefinitely.