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The jury system was never about truth and fact finding, it was always about community justice. If the community feels safer with the accused behind bars the acc
by armada651 3y ago
The jury system was never about truth and fact finding, it was always about community justice. If the community feels safer with the accused behind bars the accused is sent to jail, evidence is only there to inform the jury in their decision. It's a terrible system that should've been relegated to the past.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoIt’s just a reflection of how society works. Are you suggesting an even more concentrated arbiter of truth?
- armada651 3y agoQuality over quantity, for trails of this severity you have multiple judges decide the case. I am not convinced that having a random selection of people with no experience in law results in more accurate verdicts, in fact there is plenty of evidence of the opposite.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoI'm supposing then as part of this restructuring of society that will never happen there will also be a restructuring of how judges get to be judges in America which will also not be happening so that this "quality" will be achieved.
- armada651 3y agoYou don't have to set the quality bar very high to get someone who is better at deciding a verdict than the average juror.
- labster 3y agoI eagerly await your proposed improvements to the criminal justice process that you didn’t post in your criticism of the current process.
- armada651 3y agoThere are plenty of countries without a jury system putting significantly less innocent people in jail.
- labster 3y agoSure, but what are those systems? Are they like Japan where they don’t charge as many cases, or are they like North Korea where you are executed with a missile (and therefore aren’t innocent in jail). Is it judges or sortition? All of the other cultural context matters.
- a_bonobo 3y agoGermany doesn't have a jury system either and I'm fairly sure there's no death sentence by missile in Germany
- socialdemocrat 3y agoIn Norway we long had two systems to determine guilt. One was a jury system. A careful examination of the performance of both systems over many years concluded that the jury system was the worst. All serious miscarriages of justice we have had happened in a jury system. A key reason identified was that juries don’t have written statements giving the reasoning for their judgment. The jury system ended several years ago and nobody miss it. A panel of judges professional and selected among citizens akin to jury duty determines guilt.
- pests 3y agoHas anyone ever ran a study on the effectiveness of different court styles? Mock a murder or other crime and let the law and justice handle it as normal. At the end, reveal the true mock and see how close the law got and how close the court got. I'm not saying it would be practical and maybe impossible but I would find the results interesting.
- labster 3y agoThat’s really interesting. I do wonder if requiring jurors to write an opinion would have a similar effect, or would it just be like every group assignment in school where most jurors decide to coast off the work of the most diligent member.