Disadvantages Of The Jury System

The jury system gives us many advantages in the role it plays in the court room, one of the many advantages is that it allows the jury to have a cross section of many different types of 12 people giving us an answer that is agreed amongst everyone. The way the jury system works is that as the jurors are summoned through the electoral roll, then will receive a questionnaire through the mail which will allow the final 12 jurors to be selected. Through this method, it allows a variety of different types of people to be chosen. It gives us an honest verdict of the accused being guilty or non-guilty as it allows us to see what the minds of different type of people think.
The disadvantage to this is that not all jurors will be a cross section of people. The jurors chosen may be the same type of people who think the same which means this will give us an unfair verdict in a case. If an unfair verdict is made, the accused may be accused for the wrong thing. In the court room the answer or verdict is all in the juries’ hands. The 12 potential are to sit in all the case hearings and to learn the law that is applied to the case, they are to listen to every evidence that is being presented to them and decide if guilty or not guilty.
Another advantage that is part of the jury system is that it has been used for many years and has stood out as the test of time.
When the jurors are summoned to be on the jury, they aren’t very familiar with the system as it not publicised so much. The juror’s chosen to be on the seated jury are also unable to learn all legal procedures when they are summoned. They have the responsibility to listen and learn all the laws that apply to case. They also may have trouble understanding all evidence presented to them. The evidence may be hard to understand or hard for the jurors to take in, this may change the way the juror thinks as evidence is presented to