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Are bench trials or jury trials more constructive to socialism? (hexbear.net)
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Most AES countries use a bench trial system for criminal law, but this seems like possibly taking power away from the workers in important matters. What was the thought process behind using bench trials for criminal court in AES nations?

(For reference, a bench trial is where one or more judges/magistrates decide the outcome of a trial as opposed to a jury of people)

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[–] spectre@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Not sure if I agree or disagree but it's a reasonable take. One would hope that judges would have a deeper training in things like biases and the law itself, of course. Tossing a bunch of random into the middle of the process can gum it up in that way. I thought that the post above in this thread where in China the jury are "finders of fact" was an interesting compromise.