I’ve always been confused by this.
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Why would you want a bunch of randoms to decide your fate, and not the actual judge with a law degree and years of experience?
Why do those people have more power than the judge? They can decide anything they want and the judge is basically just the guy who signs and does the paperwork.
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By employing your peers to judge guilt, it removes the ability for the state to employ spurious charges on a person and use the judges employed by the state to find them guilty. It shouldn’t be up to the state to decide what is criminal or not, it should be the people who which the government represent.
Also the judge sentences the person if found guilty, the jury only asses guilt
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