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Last time I checked, Russia does NOT have common law sytem


In Russia, whether you are guilty or not is determined by the judge, not jury. The jury system is a feature of the common law system, not the civil law system adopted by Russia.

So wtf? Seriously. Might as well have a North Korean remake.

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Actually they do have Jury trials in Russia.

http://www.prison.org/english/rpsjur.htm

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The use of juries in Russia has changed several times, and so is rather confusing. (Juries often -but not always- descend from "common law".) Although the exact details of jury responsibility and voting shown follow "12 Angry Men" more than current Russian reality, there are currently juries in Russia.

The jury trial was introduced by Alexander II in Russia in 1864 as part of the judicial reforms that followed his liberation of the serfs in 1861. ... the institution was implanted mainly in the capital cities of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kiev, and did not spread throughout the Empire ... The jury trial was abolished by Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917 and was gradually replaced by a mixed court of one professional judge and two "people's assessors" who were jointly responsible for deciding all questions of law, fact, guilt, and punishment. In 1993 the jury trial was preliminarily reintroduced in nine of the eighty-nine political constituents of the Russian Federation. The institution was finally extended to all of Russia, except the Chechen Republic, in 2002-2003.

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