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The jury trial is one of the handful of democratic institutions that allow individual citizens, rather than the government, to make important societal decisions. █ ███████ █████████ ██ ███ ████ ██████ ██ █████ ██ ███████ ████████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ████████ ██ █████████ █████ ███ ██████ ████████ ██████ ██ ████████ █████ ████ ████████████ ██████████ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ████████ ███ ███████████ ████████ ███ █████ ██████ ██ ██████ █████ ██████ ██ ██████ █████████ ███ █████████ ███████████ ███████ ███ ████ ██ ██████████ █████ ███ █████ ██████ ████████ ███ ████████ ███

Intro to Topic · Unanimity as a requirement in jury trials

This requirement compels the jury to deliberate fully and truly before reaching its verdict.

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Critics · of unanimity

Unanimity can result in hung juries (deadlock) which hampers the judicial system by forcing a retrial. Critics recommend discarding unanimity.

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Critique (of the Critics) / Main Point · The costs of a hung jury do not outweigh the benefits of unanimity

Sounds like the conclusion. Let's see if the author can back up this cost-benefit argument.

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Premise 1 · Jury trials are rare and hung juries even more rare

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Premise 2 · Hung juries is not a bad thing; it's a sign that the system is working

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Premise 3 · Unanimity increases chances of fair verdict

Decreases chances of a false conviction

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Premise 4 · Dissenting opinion is an important part of the deliberation process

Loss of unanimity will undermine society's confidence in the verdict.

Passage Style

Critique or debate

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Supported. In P3, the author expresses support for the unanimity requirement because it reduces the risk of unjust verdicts. This shows that the risk of unjust verdicts is serious enough to warrant strong measures (like the unanimity requirement) to avoid it.

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Unsupported. The third paragraph is about the actions of jurors and does not mention judges.

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Unsupported. P3 says that the unanimity requirement reduces the chances of mistakes, not that unjust verdicts will be eliminated completely.

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Unsupported. P3 does not mention irresponsible jurors. In fact, P3 is emphasizes the importance of considering all jurors’ opinions.

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Unsupported. P3 discusses how to make the jury system better and reduce the chances of unfairness; P3 does not argue that the jury system is inherently (and permanently) flawed.

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