So what’s the reasoning behind Jury Trials vs Trials where the judge decides everything? What does a Judge do in Jury trials? Why do some countries not have jury trials and all trials are just with a judge or multiple judges?
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False dichotomy. Plenty of countries who do not have juries have “lay judges”, i. e. members of the general public who sit in bench with professional judges and decide as a team.
The far more fundamental division is between adversarial and inquisitorial justice systems. But even there, there are mixed forms
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