alt Hacker NewsIn systems I'm familiar with, magistrates handle a lot of the minor criminal cases without juries, and civil cases don't usually have a jury either, which covers probably a majority of all court cases.
In systems I'm familiar with, magistrates handle a lot of the minor criminal cases without juries, and civil cases don't usually have a jury either, which covers probably a majority of all court cases.
Civil cases don't involve convictions.
Defendants in federal civil cases in the US involving controversies over at least $20 have a right to trial by jury.