You can say everything about Italy, but not that our juridical system is broken in this way: it's much better than USA system in preventing innocent people from

You can say everything about Italy, but not that our juridical system is broken in this way: it's much better than USA system in preventing innocent people from going to jail. There are three levels of giudice, and every level can only give you a penalty <= the previous one, and if there aren't many strong proofs it's likely you will not get marked as guilty. Also there is no such "popular jury", it's all made by professional people. We are mostly an irrelevant nation lately, but 2500 years of history of our juridical system are still in action.