Capital Punishment without Capital Trials in Japan’s Lay Judge System
In May 2009, Japan began a new trial system in which ordinary citizens sit with professional judges in order to adjudicate guilt and determine sentence in serious criminal cases. This change injected a meaningful dose of lay participation into Japanese criminal trials for the first time since 1943,...
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Cambridge University Press
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Asia-Pacific Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.japanfocus.org/articles/view/3461 |
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