The TrueJury Project
For Educators and Researchers
TrueJury retries famous cases before a real public jury, publishes majority and dissent opinions every case, and runs controlled experiments on how information changes verdicts. Everything about the method is public. That makes the site a working laboratory for anyone who teaches or studies how juries think.
Law professors
Use a live case as the week's assignment: students read the file, vote, submit written reasoning, and compare their analysis against the published opinion and the real court's outcome. The blind-split experiments are ready-made classroom material on framing, evidence sufficiency, and the difference between folklore and the record.
We also invite professors to design experiments with us. If there is a jury-behavior question you want run at public scale, from evidence-order effects to damages anchoring, propose it: write to hello@truejury.com with the subject line "Research." You get the data and the design credit; our jurors get an interesting case.
Law schools and moot court
Every published case pairs opposing counsel briefs with a verdict from hundreds of lay jurors, which is exactly the audience real advocacy has to persuade. The Simulator is live now: students write the facts of any case, real or hypothetical, and a twelve-member simulated jury deliberates and returns a verdict with majority reasoning and a dissent. Draft a fact pattern two ways and watch the verdict move. Private class dockets and moot court before our public jury are next; write to hello@truejury.com with the subject line "Classroom" to shape them.
High school civics and mock trial
The site teaches the thing textbooks struggle to: what a jury actually weighs, and how much the verdict depends on which facts reach it. A class can read the day's file together, vote individually, argue it out, and check back for the court's opinion. With The Simulator, students can write their own case and put it before a simulated jury in a minute, an unbeatable bell-ringer exercise. And TrueJury Live turns the whole room into the game: the clerk drafts a close case and seals the ruling, students join by QR code or PIN on their own devices, vote with written reasoning, and the reveal crowns the jurors who cracked it, then reads the reasoning from both sides aloud. All cases are drawn from the public record and moderated; the courtroom conduct rules apply to everyone. Teachers, tell us what you need at hello@truejury.com.
Researchers and journalists
Our methodology is public and versioned: how verdicts are counted, how experiments assign files, and what our numbers do and do not claim. Findings publish in the press room with sample sizes attached. Media inquiries: press@truejury.com.
How to cite us: The TrueJury Project, case number and date, with the URL of the case or experiment page. Verdict figures are human votes only, deduplicated one per visitor per case; AI panels are labeled forecasts and never counted in human tallies.