You’re on trial: judge or jury?

Question

I believe in most trials, defendants are allowed to pick whether the judge or a jury renders a verdict. Which would you choose?
The judge is most likely intelligent and knows the law, but is embedded in the system and could be an elected official.
Juries, on the other hand, are regular people who aren’t savvy enough to get out of civic duty.

Judge

Jury

Select age and gender to cast your vote:

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Answer 1

Agape93 | 5.9K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

Master

Jury. I’ve been screwed over by a judges verdict before, tossed out my initial protection order because he somehow thought my ex was harmless. I think he was paid off. Luckily the second judge actually had some fucking sense

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Answer 2

tartaarsaus | 7.4K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

Master

We haven’t got jury here, which is fine with me. And judges are not elected officials either. I’ll go for judge.

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OddBeMe

1 y
Where are you?
tartaarsaus

1 y
Netherlands
OddBeMe

1 y
Isn’t the max prison sentence there like 15 years?
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tartaarsaus

1 y
No, the max prison sentence is life.

That said, it tends to be rare. Also, the Supreme Court said that there needs to be a committee where someone can ask for a pardon to the King. But that has so far never actually been granted (it’s only 4 years old afaik)

A thing that more often is life in effectively prison is forced psychological therapy in an institution that stretches until said person is no danger to society.

Answer 3

OddBeMe

Where are you?

Answer 4

tartaarsaus

Netherlands

Answer 5

OddBeMe

Isn’t the max prison sentence there like 15 years?

Answer 6

tartaarsaus

No, the max prison sentence is life.

That said, it tends to be rare. Also, the Supreme Court said that there needs to be a committee where someone can ask for a pardon to the King. But that has so far never actually been granted (it’s only 4 years old afaik)

A thing that more often is life in effectively prison is forced psychological therapy in an institution that stretches until said person is no danger to society.

Answer 7

codyccc | 1.9K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

Guru

Judge if its the local court but If I could get a change of venue a jury

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OddBeMe

1 y
Interesting. I guess it depends where the venue is. Alabama? Hell no.

Answer 8

OddBeMe

Interesting. I guess it depends where the venue is. Alabama? Hell no.

Answer 9

User2300

Xper 4

If it's a 'one person's word over the other ' type case , I want a jury. If it's straight up letter of the law case, I want a judge.

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Answer 10

CuriousMufuxka | 1.6K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

Guru

Dammit, you got me on the last sentence of your description! I've gotten out of jury duty twice but neither were savvy.

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Answer 11

jimmy2 | 2.3K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

Guru

I go with jury, make everyone laugh i have half the jury on my side then i hear... not guilty. Lol

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Answer 12

Jakeofalltrades93 | 668 opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

Xper 7

probably jury. I honestly didn't know you got to chose who gives the verdict

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