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Courtroom videos are presented in a variety of ways to jurors, being shown on such devices as small screens in the jury box, big screen television monitors, and large format projection screens. How does the size of video images presented to jurors — small, medium or large — influence jurors’ decisions? Wendy Heath and Bruce Grannermann (2014) examined the effect of video image size on jurors’ verdicts. A total of 263 jury-eligible mock jurors were presented a trial summary about a female defendant charged with murder. For half of the jurors, the trial summary presented strong evidence against the defendant, with the trial summary presented weak evidence against the defendant for the other half of the jurors. Mock jurors also were shown a 3-minute video of a portion of the defendant’s testimony. For some jurors, the video was presented on a 27 inch television monitor, while for other jurors the video was presented on a 9 foot projection screen….