What are the disadvantaages of a jury system?

Jury trial is susceptible to typical biases that a vast majority of the public holds. It also becomes subjective and inconsistent. Composition of the jury, instead of nature of the alleged crime and the letter of law, becomes a critical factor in judgments. For a write-up on why jury trial was abolished in India, read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._M._Nanavati_vs._St...

Juries offer collaboration, intimidation, and the group can single out weak people and make them beleive thier views. Also unless someone really wants to be on a jury, it usually is the people who are too dumb to get out of jury duty that are on the juries. And only in cases where they can be famous for being a jury (like the michael jackson case) do people even care.

And when that happens, most people will exploit thier position for personal gain and always have some bias.

So the jury system can be VERY corrupt.

I don't know if I would trust judges after that judge in Vermont that let that rapist off with just sixty days.

Part of the problem is too many Americans don't see jury duty as their civic duty. So the people who are actually intellegent enough to sit on a jury find excuses, thus getting a subpar jury.

To sundar, thx for the article. I never knew India ever had jury trials.