“…This impartiality requires them to guard against their prejudices and emotions: neither hatred nor malice, neither fear nor affectation, all of which may have negative or positive connotations that could be inspired by the personality of the accused, the nature of his or her crime, or the victim. However, for judges and jurors alike, intimate conviction represents a strong and trying emotional experience, in terms of both the nature of the case and what is at stake in the decision (Esnard & Dumas, 2019a;Esnard & Dumas, 2019b). This is consistent with the legal framework, which clearly states the need to include a subjective assessment of the evidence in order to individualize the sentence, but excludes any subjective judgment that is liable to be based on emotions, preconceptions and any other extralegal factor that could be a source of potential discrimination.…”