Jury reasoning in separate and joint trials of institutional child sexual abuse: an empirical study

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J Goodman-Delahunty, A Cossins and N Martschuk, Jury reasoning in separate and joint trials of institutional child sexual abuse: an empirical study, Report for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, 2016.

Abstract

This study investigates the extent to which joint trials with cross-admissible tendency evidence infringe defendants’ rights. It also analyses whether jury reason and decisions in joint trials result in unfair prejudice to defendants.