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Yes, sorry, you are right. The new law here in Japan requires citizens to serve as "lay judges" and not "juries". I don't know offhand all of the distinctions
by veidr 14y ago
Yes, sorry, you are right. The new law here in Japan requires citizens to serve as "lay judges" and not "juries".
I don't know offhand all of the distinctions here (I think one difference is lay judges decide both guilt/innocence and the sentence, if guilty) but I think the Japanese system pretty similar to what Americans would think of as a "jury".
Precisely speaking, however, they are indeed "lay judges".
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoAs far as I can comprehend from WP[0] "lay judges" have a more direct role in trials, where juries are mainly observers and merely make a decision based on the trial (including any instruction the judge gives them on evidence, assumptions, etc.). Interesting system, but I'm not really in a position to say which would be more effective (if either). [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_judges_in_Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_judges_in_Japan