The Sociology of Law
Online ISSN : 2424-1423
Print ISSN : 0437-6161
ISSN-L : 0437-6161
Significance of the American Jury System
One Day/One Trial System
Takashi Maruta
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1990 Volume 1990 Issue 42 Pages 163-167,262

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This paper analyzes One Day/One Trial (Jury) System in the United States. Although the cost of time and expenditure of the jury system and its impartiality have been criticized as a weakness of the jury system, some states have adapted a renovated jury system, one day/one trial system, to overcome this weakness. Under this system, by abolishing statutory excuses, jurors are randamly drawn from more sophisticated source, such as a state sensus, and the jury duty is limited to only one day or one trial. This system is used only 20% of population in the United States, but it lessens jurors' burden to serve and guarantees the representation of a "fair cross section of the conmmunity." An American experiment to convert weakness of the institution to the strong point seems to be very instructive to the Japa's (future) jury system.
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