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In Denmark juries were introduced in 1919. They were allegedly supposed to ensure concurrence between the popular sense of justice and the criminal justice system.
The only field where these juries gave noticeable different verdicts from those of professional judges was in abortion cases where the juries were more lenient. The state reacted a couple of years later, not by relaxing the laws that banned abortion at the time and bringing them in alignment with popular sentiment, but by excluding abortion cases from jury trials.