A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell (audiobook)More videos. A third kind of jury, known as a coroner's jury can be convened in some common law jurisdiction in connection with an inquest by a coroner. A coroner is a public official (often an elected local government official in the. Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers is a battle of the sexes. Martha Hale is called away from her baking by her husband, Lewis Hale. Together with Sherriff Peters and his wife, Mrs. Peters, they are going to visit a crime. A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut of the north wind, she ran back for her big woolen scarf. As she hurriedly wound that round her head her eye made a scandalized sweep. On a desolate American farm in the early 1900's, a farmer is found murdered in his sleep and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. A powerful adaptation of the 1917 Susan Glaspell short story of the same name, based on her. If innocent until proven guilty, then why are people charged, arrested and banned first? The ACLU has worked over the years to remove barriers to women serving on juries. Under English common law, which was the basis for early American law, women, except in a small category of cases, were deemed unfit to serve on.
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