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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Jury

Christie S Warren

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Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
June 2020

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Due process — Jury — Standing (locus standi) — Comparative constitutional law — Fair hearing and fair trial

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
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1 A jury is a body convened under oath to decide questions of fact, applications of law, and at times sentencing issues during trial. Panels may be composed entirely of lay persons, or mixed panels of professional judges and lay jurors or assessors. Lay participation in trials is considered a symbol of democracy and popular sovereignty as well as a bulwark against abuses of governmental power and may also be viewed as a guarantor of community norms and values in the assessment of wrongful conduct by community members (Lanni 1775; Daly and Pattenden 680; principle...
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