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The Sixth Amendment’s Catch-22: Balancing Jury Impartiality and a Fair Cross-Section in the Social Media Era
Gabryella J. Carrelli
Gabryella J. Carrelli is a J.D. Candidate at The University of Chicago Law School, Class of 2027.

The push for more pretrial screening creates a tension between the Sixth Amendment’s dual guarantees of an impartial jury and a jury drawn from a fair cross-section of the defendant’s community. Because social media is disproportionately consumed among young adults, particularly ages eighteen to twenty-nine, heightened scrutiny of social media exposure during voir dire risks systemically excluding younger citizens from jury pools, thereby undermining a defendant’s right to a fair cross-section.

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Group to Individual (G2i) Inference in Scientific Expert Testimony
David L. Faigman
John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law; Professor, University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; Co-Director, UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy
John Monahan
John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Psychiatric Medicine and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia
Christopher Slobogin
Milton Underwood Professor of Law, Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University
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