Which type of jury is better, a unanimous jury or a majority jury? While both have their advantages and disadvantages, I believe that a unanimous jury of ordinary people is the best way to come to a verdict. It is the jury's function to protect defendants from government oppression. Juries do this by using their common sense. It is this common sense that separates ordinary citizens from panels of judges and legal experts. Judges and legal experts have been trained from countless years on the law and it's loopholes and sometimes this overshadows the goodness of commonsense and simple logic. While a legal expert or judge may have more experience, average jurors make legal decisions that are fairer. The original
Which type of jury is better, a unanimous jury or a majority jury? While both have their advantages and disadvantages, I believe that a unanimous jury of ordinary people is the best way to come to a verdict. It is the jury's function to protect defendants from government oppression. Juries do this by using their common sense. It is this common sense that separates ordinary citizens from panels of judges and legal experts. Judges and legal experts have been trained from countless years on the law and it's loopholes and sometimes this overshadows the goodness of commonsense and simple logic. While a legal expert or judge may have more experience, average jurors make legal decisions that are fairer. The original