Which Statement About the Role of the Jury Is FALSE

question 21

Multiple Choice

Which statement about the role of the jury is FALSE?

• A) Juries are used for the most serious indictable offences.
• B) Jurors are often called the fact finders.
• C) Jurors must unanimously agree on a verdict.
• D) A jury is 12 persons unless it is a summary offence, which only uses 6.

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Definitions:

Contact Comfort

The psychological and physical comfort derived from physical contact, especially significant in developmental psychology and attachment theories.

Verbal Interaction

The exchange of information or ideas through spoken words between individuals.

Cloth Mother

A reference to the surrogate mother experiment in psychology, where infant monkeys showed a preference for a cloth-covered surrogate mother over a wire mesh surrogate that provided food.

Wire Mother

An experiment in developmental psychology by Harry Harlow, exploring attachment by showing that infant monkeys preferred soft, cloth surrogates over wire ones, even if the latter provided food.