Chambers wrote:
> judicial system is a review by a jury of your peers, 

No, it's not. That's England's system.

And "peer" doesn't mean what you think it means there. :-)

Ours is a jury from the same jurisdiction.

> At this point, however, you're leaving it to the courts to ensure that 
> innocent people do not get convicted.  Here, we leave it to the public, 
> in the form of a public jury.

We do both. Appeals are a check on misoperation of the legal system.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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