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#331 - Using Early Jury Research to Guide Discovery

Podcast: The Litigation Psychology Podcast · Courtroom Sciences

Opublikowano: 2026-10-05

CSI Litigation Consultant Sarah Burton, Ph.D. joins Steve Wood, Ph.D. to discuss early jury research. Sarah shares details about a case in which she conducted a focus group very early in the case, while discovery was still open, to understand what jurors thought about an important piece of evidence that the defense was expecting to base their case on. And it turned out that this evidence was not important to the jurors - they understood the evidence, however, they were not persuaded by it which led the defense team to have to rethink their strategy for discovery...