CRI345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Petit Jury, Compurgation, Fourth Council Of The Lateran

• School: UTSG
• Department: Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
• Course: CRI345

Document Summary

But modern criminal justice history marked by blend of approaches and. Importance of unsettling sense of the inevitability of present-day structures. Institutions & knowledge systems affect our lives, but we can"t always see them. Common law part of british world broadly construed. When napoleon conquered much of europe brought code of rules. Juries of presentment vs trial juries analogous to today"s grand juries vs petit. Juries of presentment act as witnesses rather than deciders. Grand juries hearing evidence on whether person should be indicted on criminal offence. And then to regular trial jury petit jury responsible for factual determination/guilt or innocence. Like cases should be treated alike precedential reasoning. No criminal liability (for felonies) w/out mental responsibility. A person is innocent until proven guilty. Many changes since middle ages but similarities & legacies of very earliest days of common law. Many diff kinds of courts seignorial, county, hundreds , church, etc.