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Rachel Ormston, Professor James Chalmers, Professor Fiona Leverick, Professor Vanessa Munro, Lorraine Murray, Scottish Jury Research: Findings From A Large-Scale Mock Jury Study (Scottish Government, October 2019), https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-jury-research-fingings-largemock-jury-study-2/ This important study was commissioned by the Scottish government to better appreciate (a) how “the unique features of the Scottish jury system [affect] jury reasoning and jury decision making”; and (b) how jurors make sense of the “not proven” verdict’, and choose between that verdict as opposed to others. This is the largest mock jury study ever conducted in the United Kingdom, as may well be the most realistic. The key “overarching” finding is that the way in which the jury system is “constructed” makes an important difference to jury verdicts.