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Jury Deliberations in the Trial of U.S. v. John DeLorean: A Case Analysis of Groupthink Avoidance and an Enhanced Framework

1992; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 45; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/001872679204501004

1741-282X

Chris P. Neck, Gregory Moorhead,

Legal Education and Practice Innovations

This paper utilizes the groupthink framework (Janis, 1983) to analyze the jury deliberations in the trial of U.S. v. John DeLorean. Based on this analysis, an enhanced groupthink framework is presented that attempts to highlight a major factor that accounts for why defective decision-making does not occur in situations in which groupthink antecedent conditions are present that is, the presence of methodical decision-making procedures.