The Cases for and against Blindfolding the Jury11This chapter is adapted, in part, from three prior publications: Diamond and Casper, 1992, Diamond et al., 1989, and Diamond and Vidmar, 2001. I use the term blindfolding, rather than blinding, because when information is withheld from an individual, the individual may fill in the missing information based on previous experience and outside knowledge, sometimes correctly and sometimes incorrectly (i.e., peeks through the blindfold). A decision maker who peeks is not effectively blinded.