Child sex abuse cases have been the target of considerable psycho-legal research. The present paper offers an analysis of psychological constructs for jury selection in child sex abuse cases from the defense perspective. The authors specifically delineate general and case-specific jury selection variables. General variables include authoritarianism, dogmatism, need for cognition, pretrial knowledge, and race/socioeconomic status. Case-specific variables include sexual attitudes, homonegativity, juror abuse history, and beliefs about children. The paper also provides a factual background of a representative case, incorporates relevant case law, identifies sources for voir dire and juror questionnaire items, and discusses lessons from the primary author's first experience as a trial consultant for the defense.
The reaction of one equivalent of zinc(II) halide with two equivalents of quinoline N-oxide (QNO) in methanol yields compounds as ZnX
2(QNO)2, where X = Cl (I), Br (II) and I (III), namely, dichloridobis(quinoline N-oxide-κO)zinc(II), [ZnCl2(C9H7NO)2], dibromidobis(quinoline N-oxide-κO)zinc(II), [ZnBr2(C9H7NO)2], and diiodidobis(quinoline N-oxide-κO)zinc(II) [ZnI2(C9H7NO)2]. In all three complexes, Zn cations are coordinated by two QNO ligands bound through the oxygen atoms and two halide atoms, with X—Zn—X bond angles ca 20° wider than the O—Zn—O, giving rise to a distorted tetrahedral geometry. Crystals of (II) and (III) are isostructural and both show pairwise π-stacking of QNO ligands and weak C—H...X hydrogen bonds, while (I) packs differently, with a shorter C—H...Cl bond and without π-stacking.
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