The Attorney–Client Relationship in Capital Cases and Its Impact on Juror Receptivity to Mitigation Evidence

Autor:	Thomas W. Brewer
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Client relationship Perception media_common.quotation_subject Capital (economics) Defense attorney Receptivity Psychology Law Social psychology Pathology and Forensic Medicine Supreme court media_common
Zdroj:	Justice Quarterly. 22:340-363
ISSN:	1745-9109 0741-8825
DOI:	10.1080/07418820500219169
Popis:	The United States Supreme Court has placed a great deal of trust in the ability and willingness of capital jurors to consider mitigation evidence during sentencing deliberations as a constitutional aspect of capital sentencing. This paper examines the jurors’ perception of the affective warmth and friendliness shared by attorney and client, and the degree to which the defense attorney appears to regard the defendant as a close working member of the defense team. Using data obtained from interviews with 725 jurors in capital trials, regression analysis revealed that respondents were more receptive to mitigation evidence when they viewed the relationship between the attorney and client as warm and friendly, but less receptive when they reported the attorney–client as having a close working relationship. Analysis of interaction terms revealed that the negative effects of the close working relationship can be suppressed by modeling a warm affective attorney–client relationship.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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