Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 4, 2007
Reel World Education: European Students Offer Insights Into U.S. Jury System
Forum Column - By Peggy Strand - One lawyer's stint as a guest lecturer at a Finnish college made her re-evaluate the virtues and vices of the American system of trial by jury.
By Peggy Strand
A jury listens to the evidence and determines whether the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Most Americans believe it works. But take 18 European students - Finns, Germans, Scots, Belgians - and ask them their views of the American justice system (or at least what they may know of it through film), and you have an enlightening discussion.
The stud...
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