Research 4

Source:Jury System Criminal
http://www.lawteacher.net/criminal-law/essays/jury-system-criminal.php

My Topic:
Civic Participation in Criminal Trials should exist.

What I hope to learn from this source:
I need some trial cases related to the jurors.   

Notes:

1. do not understand the evidence, verdict based on inappropriate criteria or methods. -  the Court of Appeal quashed a conviction (Young [1995] QB 324.)
   
2.  are protected from pressure and outside influences when deciding a verdict. They can decide based on their own ideas of justice, contrary to the legal advice. - (in the case of R v Ponting [1985] Crim LR 318),  on the grounds of public interest. Defendant was charged under the Official Secret Act 1920. The Jury refused to convict despite no legal defence.
3. the Jury can reach perverse decisions, which are not justified. ( Randle and Pottle [1991] Alliott J), helping a famous spy, to escape from prison. 
4. ( Lord Woolf C J), ``a fair-minded and informed observer would not conclude that there was a real possibility that a Juror was biased merely because his occupation was one which meant that he was involved in some capacity or other in the administration of Justice''.
   
   

Final Thoughts:

The second one is perfectly what I needed. Through using that sources I can support my opinion that we can believe the jurors verdict because it is based on their criteria. Also I can use that to support that the only can juror verdict outside influences of the justice so it can contain the public's opinion (it is also what they have to do) Others can also be used to say opponents' opinion. Especially the third one is strong.
I think I have find a source to support why the jury is necessary in the trial. What if there are no jurors in the trials?