Jury System Pros And Cons

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“When the United States was founded, the jury system was made a part of its system of government. This was done for one main reason: because the Founders did not trust judges, prosecutors, investigators, and other officials to administer justice” (Jury Reform, July 12 2005, Para 1). Jury itself acts as the ultimate “shield” against violations of the constitutional. Members of the jury are in placed to protect the constitutional rights of United States, this is because our founding fathers wanted to prevent corruption on the federal level. Today there are two types of juries, trial jury and grand jury. First, “Trial juries decide the facts of a case a formal trial, and usually consist of six to twelve people. If a juror is selected for trial,…show more content…
They recommend a course of action by reviewing the material that they have seen. This can cause a dilemma for grand juries, because they must decide if there enough evidence to prosecute individuals who may have broken the law. “The finding that there is sufficient evidence is called an indictment, and there is a constitutional requirement that persons accused of serious crimes must be indicted by a grand jury before they may be prosecuted in a trial. This is to protect innocent persons from being prosecuted by corrupt, abusive, incompetent, or overzealous prosecutors” (Jury Reform, July 12 2005, Para 4). However, grand juries may investigative any issue to the fullest extent. They also have the power to subpoena witnesses, making them testify regardless if the witnesses prefer not to. Additionally, they have the right to make a presentment. Meaning a formal presentation to a courtroom by presenting information, or by a sworn officer that relates to an offense and other serious crimes. Moreover, grand juries’ other important duty is to investigate matters that the prosecutors may not want to discuss or consider. This falls under state level corruption involving officials or on federal level, misconduct, abuse, incompetence,
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