▲ | Y-bar 3 days ago | |||||||
Both Norway and Sweden have Lay Judges in the lower courts (which is little more than voluntary juries): | ||||||||
▲ | diggan 3 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Nämndemän (Lay Judges) are nothing like juries, at least how I understand juries. In lower courts (tingsrätt), those people are appointed by the city council, and the people chosen are often politically involved (yet the appointment is "unpolitical"), they're not just "randoms" who got called to be in the jury, like how I understand the juries in the US to work. | ||||||||
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