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The Japanese Jury System

On January 5, 2011 By

The Japanese Jury System started on May 2009. Since then, till July 2010, it has been present in 60 different district Courts, seeing around 800 hundred cases. During this time, 5,222 juries have been able to experience this new system. Furthermore, during 2010 around 344,900 applications have been filled for new juries. It seems [...]

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