Agreed. If you are guilty, why would you want an educated judge who knows the law to decide? A good lawyer can sway a jury of your peers.Guilty people prefer a jury. Defense attorneys prefer a jury. They only have to create a little doubt in one juror who isn’t the judge.
if you are innocent why would you want a judge to decide? using the same logic it would be nearly impossible to convince 12 people that an innocent person is guilty
And risk it all, hell yeah
The initial vote for OJ was 10-2 with the two holdouts convicting. So the majority convinced the other two to change their votes to not guilty
...."if the glove don't fits, ya gots to acquit.
As long as the jury is not sequestered.
yes unless he was sequestered in which case he would not be able to depart the hotel they are at.
Yeah...he's just over there doing his civic duty as a citizen of the U.S.A.
I consider judges to be more impartial and informed, at least concerning the law. If I'm innocent, I'd think a judge would be harder to convince by a prosecutor that I'm guilty than a jury would be. I was watching some trial show where the show laid out the case from the perspective of the defendant because it appeared that there was a high probability of their innocence. In some of the cases, the juror agreed, but in some where I thought the jury would find the individual innocent, it did not. An emotional argument can sometimes overcome logic in a trial by jury. I think that's less likely when a judge is deciding.
The two points are a contradiction
A jury of your peers means that anyone can be a juror. If I'm innocent, I'd much rather have a judge who has had to pass a high bar to get where he is deciding than 12 people who work at Walmart (not that there's anything wrong with working at Walmart).
Evidence can be manipulated to an extent by a good prosecutor. In some of the cases I watched, it came down to how convincing the experts were who were put on the stand. They painted a picture that the jurors bought. Judges have seen it all and are not as easy to sway IMO as a peer juror who may have never been in a courtroom before.
