The Nation's Model Court with Recognized Jury System: The Rhetoric Does Not Match the Reality

• Author: Zhang Xiang
• Pages: 16-17

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Zhang Xiang

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http://hn.rednet.cn/c/2012/04/05/2572721.htm.

Hong Wang [Red Net], http://hn.rednet.cn/c/2012/04/05/2572721.htm.

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The Nation’s Model Court with Recognized Jury System: The Rhetoric Does Not

Match the Reality

In all jury trials in Liuyang Municipal People’s Court, one of the nation’s model court

with recognized jury system, the trial judge is required to ask, “Does any of the jurors

wish to express an opinion?” before pronouncing a judgment. Lu Guangzheng was one of

the first batch of eighteen jurors hired by the Liuyang Municipal People’s Court. At the

very first trial that Lu served as juror, which involved a charge of armed robbery made

against a minor defendant, he stood up and expressed the opinion that, owing to the

defendant’s age, “he should not be sentenced too harshly, instead the court should devise

a sentence that emphasizes education and rehabilitation.