To tell what we know or wait for Godot?
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Law and Human Behavior
- Vol. 15 (1) , 77-90
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01044831
Abstract
The evidence that death-qualified jurors are more likely than excluded jurors to convict is consistent, robust, and directly relevant to the issues of representativeness and conviction proneness that were before the Supreme Court in Lockhart v. McCree . There are exactly the circumstances in which an amicus brief from the APA is most appropriate. In science the search for knowledge is never complete; to keep silent until our understanding is perfect is to keep silent foreverKeywords
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