Trial Procedures For the Jury

  1. Preliminary Meeting
    1. Participants: Jury
    2. Goal: To give jury the opportunity to meet and be briefed
      1. Confidentiality
      2. Procedures
      3. Background
      4. Jurors receive materials (folders, etc.)
  2. Fact Finding
    1. Participants: Jury, Confronted, Confronting
    2. Goal: To hear from the confronted and confronting as to what happened and to be able to ask them about it
      1. This is the last chance that jurors have to remove themselves.
      2. This meeting is to learn fact, not about the circumstance
      3. Ask Confronting Party then Confronted Party questions in turn
  3. Statement of Violation
    1. Participants: Jury
    2. Goal: Jury attempts to come to a statement of violation or decide that there was no violation
    3. If there was no violation, resolutions can still be suggested
  4. Circumstantial Portion
    1. Participants: Jury, Confronted, (optional: Confronting)
    2. Goal: To understand more fully the circumstance in which the violation occurred.  Confronted can offer defense; jury can gain perspective through questions.
      1. Confronted party talks about circumstance and then the jury is given time to ask any questions they may have
      2. Confronting party given the chance to talk about how this issue has affected them
  5. Proposed Resolutions
    1. Participants: Jury, Confronted, (0ptional: Confronting)
    2. Confronted is asked to suggest their tentative resolutions; Confronting is asked to suggest their tentative resolutions (or the confronting party’s emailed resolutions are read out loud)
  6. Tentative Resolutions
    1. Participants: Jury
    2. Goal: Consent on tentative resolutions, being sure to concentrate on education, accountability, and restoration
  7. Finalizing Resolutions
    1. Participants: Jurors
      1. Discuss whether or not everyone is still in support of the resolutions
      2. Consent to change the resolutions or not
    2. Participants: Jurors, Confronted, (optional: Confronting)
      1. Explain changes (if applicable) and original resolutions
      2. Ask for confronted/confronting’s responses to resolutions
      3. Jury can learn how parties feel and explain reasons for resolutions
    3. Participants: Jurors
      1. After parties leave, the jury should sit with considerations, discuss, and come to new or confirm final resolutions.
      2. Jury must consent to each resolution and to all resolutions as a group.

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