Scholarship Repository University of Minnesota Law School Articles Faculty Scholarship 1998 Constructing a Jury that Is Both Impartial and Representative: Utilizing Cumulative Voting in Jury Selection Edward S. Adams University of Minnesota Law School,
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[email protected]. ARTICLES CONSTRUCTING A JURY THAT IS BOTH IMPARTIAL AND REPRESENTATIVE: UTILIZING CUMULATIVE VOTING IN JURY SELECTION EDwARD S. AANMs* CHRISTIAN J. LAN* One of the main and ongoing problems plaguing the American jury system has been ensuring that juries in civil and criminal trials are truly representative of tie communities in which they serve Historically,minorities have been disproportion- ately excluded from jury service. This shortfall results from a combination offac- tors at each stage of the juror identificationprocess. At the jury pool stage, juror notification methods often fail to identify or reach minorities for tie simple reason that minorities generally are poorer and more transient. At the venire stage, those minorities who actually receive notification report to the courthouse at a lower rate than the majority because they ignore the summons and claim hardshipmore often.