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  3. Description : Examines the outsized influence of jurors on prosecutorial discretion Thanks to television and popular media the jury is deeply embedded in the American publics imagination of the legal system For the countrys federal prosecutors however jurors have become an increasingly rare sight Today in fact less than of their cases will proceed to an actual jury trial And yet when federal prosecutors describe their jobs and what the profession means to them the jury is a central theme Anna Offits The Imagined Juror examines the counterintuitive importance of jurors in federal prosecutors work at a moment when jury trials are statistically in decline Drawing on extensive field research among federal prosecutors the book represents the first ethnographic study of US attorneys according to legal scholar Annelise Riles It describes a world of legal practice in which jurors are frequently summonedas make believe audiences for proposed arguments hypothetical evaluators of evidence and invented decision makers who would work together to reach a verdict Even the question of moving forward with a prosecution often hinges on how federal prosecutors assume a jury will react to elements of the casean exercise where the perspectives of the public are imagined and incorporated into every stage of trial preparationBased on these findings Offit argues that the decreasing number of jury trials at the federal level has not eliminated the influence of the jury but aered it As imaginary figures jurors continue to play an important and understudied role in shaping the work and professional identities of federal

  4. prosecutors At the same time imaginary jurors are not real jurors and prosecutors at times caricature the public by leaning on stereotypes or preconceived and simplistic ideas about how laypeople think Imagined jurors it turns out are a critical if flawed resource for introducing lay perspective into the legal process As Offit shows recentering laypeople and achieving the democratic promise of our legal system will require renewed commitment to the jury trial and juries that reflect the diversity of the American public

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