Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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In Germany, you don't have a right to trial by jury, which sounds terrible. But in fact, Germany is not unusual in that, but there are still the remains of a short-lived jury system that survives to this day.

Chapters:
00:00 No German juries
01:00 The French connection
02:26 Not quite perfect
04:48 Reforms
06:17 Lay judges
07:41 That one time there was a jury

Music:
"Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons Attribution licence

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