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France to drop citizen jurors from lower criminal courts

The controversial introduction last year in France of citizen jurors to assist magistrates in trials of crimes which carry a punishment of between five and ten years is to be abandoned after an official report found the scheme, launched under former president Nicolas Sarkozy, to be ill-conceived, unmanageable and too costly,  Mediapart can reveal. Michel Deléan reports.

Michel Deléan

2 March 2013 à 19h30

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The experimental introduction last year in France of citizen jurors to assist magistrates in trials of crimes which carry a punishment of between five and ten years is to be abandoned after an official report found the scheme to be to be ill-conceived, unmanageable and too costly, Mediapart can reveal.

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