One of the latest ProlesPod episodes was on Soviet law and how some there viewed juries as a bourgeois element due to requiring to own property and all the rules that allow people being un-included from them. Some parts of the USSR were doing truly random juries with people picked off the street, if I remember correctly. Seems like a way better system. They generally had more elected judges and people’s tribunals rather than our system, at least under Stalin and Lenin.
Yeah, random juries and well designed rules about juror exclusion processes seem to be pretty critical to our systems of justice. I get the impression American judges are a bit unreliable too. Political animals.
One of the latest ProlesPod episodes was on Soviet law and how some there viewed juries as a bourgeois element due to requiring to own property and all the rules that allow people being un-included from them. Some parts of the USSR were doing truly random juries with people picked off the street, if I remember correctly. Seems like a way better system. They generally had more elected judges and people’s tribunals rather than our system, at least under Stalin and Lenin.
Yeah, random juries and well designed rules about juror exclusion processes seem to be pretty critical to our systems of justice. I get the impression American judges are a bit unreliable too. Political animals.