The discriminability of a juror's information processing can be made more precise in the context of a signal detection model.
Consequently, jurors must draw on their own understanding of reasonable behavior, based on their experience of the world.
But the expressive content of the verdict is no hostage to the intentions of the presiding judges or jurors.
The former required that grand jurors should be freeholders within the county, and excluded women and peers.
If a juror's doubt cannot be expressed, we cannot parse it along the axis that separates the rational from the irrational.
Making matters worse, the system puts no checks on how the juror goes about arriving at that subjective level of confidence.
Many men of comparatively modest means appear, at least occasionally, as jurors.
Then we have wanted a way to warn jurors that they must not let exaggerated, hyperbolic doubts stand in the way of conviction.
