Juries Pros And Cons

In the United States a courtroom is divided up into two main parts, the Judge and Jury. It is one of the better systems because it provides a relatively unbiased system that uses a group of people to judge a peer. It, however is not without flaws. There is a possibility of the jury becoming biased due to the media coverage of a case. There are multiple ways around this such as replacing the juries in favor of a panel of judges. Next would be using a set of professional juries instead of the common people. Lastly, there is the possibility of giving the police the power to act as both the judge and jury, in order to get rid of criminals. The first way to possibly fix the justice system would be to replace the juries for a panel of court judges. The advantages of this would be that the …show more content…
One of the major benefits of a professional jury would be that the juries would be made up of people with an in depth understanding of the laws and new technologies. Another pro would be that people who are on a common jury would bring their bias views into the courtroom and because the prosecution can dismiss a juror by challenges or cause, the prosecutor would be able to move the selection in their favor. With professional jury, however, that would not be the case as they would not be able to be removed and would only go off of the evidence presented. The con would be that it would undermine a part of the idea of juries. The point of a jury is to have a mixed selection of peers, with different backgrounds to judge a defendant. If you were to preselect a group, such as a professional jury, then you lose out on the potential of multiple backgrounds. This so because to be selected for a professional jury you would have to go to law school to have an understanding of the laws and not everyone can go to college. Lastly is the pros and cons on police acting as judge and