One of the latest ProlesPod episodes was on Soviet law and how some there viewed juries as a bourgeois element due to requiring to own property and all the rules that allow people being un-included from them. Some parts of the USSR were doing truly random juries with people picked off the street, if I remember correctly. Seems like a way better system. They generally had more elected judges and people's tribunals rather than our system, at least under Stalin and Lenin.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Yeah, random juries and well designed rules about juror exclusion processes seem to be pretty critical to our systems of justice. I get the impression American judges are a bit unreliable too. Political animals.