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Metropolitan And Town Juries: The Influence Of Social Context On Lay Participation, María Inés Bergoglio
Metropolitan And Town Juries: The Influence Of Social Context On Lay Participation, María Inés Bergoglio
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Lay participation in Argentinean criminal trials, even if prescribed by the 1853 Argentine Constitution, was not established in the country until 2004, when the province of Cordoba created a mixed court to deal with cases of aberrant crimes and corruption.
This article describes the initial experience with mixed courts in the metropolitan area of Great Cordoba, and in small cities of the province, to depict the impact of different social contexts on lay participation. The support for citizen participation in legal decision making, the responses to the introduction of the new mixed courts, and jury-judge agreement rates are some of …