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Why do Western countries have jury duty? (multiverse.soulism.net)
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All nations within the Anglosphere (US, UK, CA, AU & NZ) have JD imposed towards citizens. I know that the US & Canada both inherited that from Britain, which explains why they have it. However, should it be entirely only the judge making the conviction (some countries operate on a lay-judge system meaning juries aren't used, such as Finland or Japan for example) rather than leaving that decision up to jurors?

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[–] 22 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

That whole "... of your peers" thing. Supposedly, it's harder to influence and corrupt 12 jurors than it is a single judge.

I have seen cases where the judge reversed the juror's decision, although I think that's really rare.

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  • [–] 17 points 22 hours ago*

    Typically that happens when the judge made an error. As in, based on the evidence, the judge should have dismissed the case as a matter of law and not allowed the case to go to jury at all. If the motion the attorney submitted to the judge wasn't very good, or they were rushing through their papers and didn't have time to really think things through, the issues with the case may not have been clear to them until listening to all of the evidence.

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  • [–] -4 points 17 hours ago

    and 12 jurors that are easily manipulated as well. just like recent one where the women were hellbent on being sjw by allowing the murderder to go free, just because shes a mom. and others like having jurors dumb enough to believe in rittenhouse or his lawyers.

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