There are two radically different ways to conceive the role of a criminal jury. One is to think of it as a purely factfinding body whose sole purpose is to enhance the likelihood of a factually accurate verdict: Did this defendant pull the trigger on that weapon, resulting in the death of that victim—yes or no? The second conception of juries is that they play at least one other,perhaps more important, role in our system of criminal justice, which is to check the abuse of government power by refusing to allow unjust convictions.
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