“Innocent Or Guilty?”: Judges & Juries In The British Justice System.
Last year, there were 116 ‘hung juries’ in England & Wales: They couldn’t agree on whether the accused had committed the crime or not, so the judge had to order a retrial. Although this represented only 0.7% of the 16,718 cases which went to court, it was also a 70% increase on the figures for […]