Sentences with phrase «unsympathetic defendants»

But mock trials also show sympathetic defendants get more non-guilty verdicts and unsympathetic defendants get more guilty verdicts in front of jurors who were explicitly told about nullification compared to those who weren't.

Unsympathetic defendant or not, as a breastfeeding mother, I find this case unsettling.

Stu d. 255, 270 (2016)(describing statistically significant results of an experiment in which actual judges were asked to make a ruling about a hypothetical criminal conviction, taking into account both a single precedent and either positive or negative facts about the defendant, and upheld the conviction of the unsympathetic defendant at a rate more than twice as high as that of the sympathetic defendant (87 - 41 %)-RRB-.