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Women Jurors on Trial: Popular Depictions of the American Woman Juror in Twentieth-Century Newspaper Coverage

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Clark-Wiltz, Meredith
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	“Women as Jurors: San Francisco Experiment is an Interesting Study in Psychology,” read a headline in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1913.1 In California, women became jurors in certain locales following the adoption of equal suffrage, and this report sought to evaluate this new “experiment” in women‟s citizenship.2 It found that an all-woman jury summoned to try a female defendant had “interpreted justice and so far the heavens have not fallen.” While it exaggerated the potential consequences of the trial, the report evaluated the women jurors, finding “their mental processes are such they will always deliberate on different lines” than men. Additionally, these women jurors incited changes in dress, style, and argumentation strategies for attorneys. Women jurors, the article stated, relied on “instincts and impressions” rather than evidence, benefiting the female defendant more than men who would consider the facts of the case before her “protestations of innocence.” The article concluded that future women jurors may not act similar to this jury, but this trial proved one thing—“the sentiment of justice is two vastly different things in man and woman.”
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Volume Number	2
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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