[Peace-discuss] another Tue 3/27 event: League of Women Voters "Campaign Finance: The Real Price of a Vote"

Stuart Levy slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue Mar 27 09:36:12 CDT 2007


On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:19:54PM -0500, Shirley Stillinger wrote:
> The local League of Women Voters has been working with the Law School for
> the past two years.  Students in Beckett's trial advocacy class have been
> observing in our courtrooms for several years; but, for the past two, they
> have been filling out questionnaires.  Data  from hundreds of hours in the
> courtrooms are compiled and presented in a report.

Oh, that's interesting.  Thanks for the information.
Was the report prepared by the League, or by Beckett, or whom?
Is it available somewhere?   

> Last year, the Gazette reported on one finding:  that the number of
> minorities in the jury pool (from which the jury is seclected) is
> disproportionately small.  Efforts have been made to correct that.


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