After Hovey: A note on taking account of the automatic death penalty jurors.
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Law and Human Behavior
- Vol. 8 (1-2) , 115-120
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01044354
Abstract
The California Supreme Court'sHovey opinion identified a separate group of “automatic death penalty” (ADP) persons whose exclusion had been overlooked in previous studies of death qualification. Using data unavailable at the timeHovey was decided, this brief article estimates the effect of excluding this group on the attitudinal skewing and conviction-proneness of death-qualified jurors. It concludes that the impact of excluding the ADPs is negligible.Keywords
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