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This chapter argues that prosecutors deploy imagined jurors to assess the merits of their cases—including the quality of investigative techniques and credibility of witnesses—during every phase of their work. An effect of lawyers’ continual reference to imagined jurors is their explicit incorporation of what they perceive to be local knowledge and commonsense ideas about fairness into their decision-making processes. Though the study described in this book finds that this lay knowledge is rarely generated through firsthand encounters with actual jurors, it nevertheless animates formal and informal case evaluations and strategy meetings between assistant US attorneys. |
