The Italian system is different from ours. This particular jury included two judges.
That’s an interesting variant. There may well be advantages to such a system to counterbalance the disadvantages. I know, for example, that I just felt my ‘confidence of innocence’ adjust itself downwards. (I would expect a judge to be more likely to be corrupt than a random citizen but also to have less naive vulnerability to obvious manipulations. The latter is relevant here.)
That’s an interesting variant. There may well be advantages to such a system to counterbalance the disadvantages. I know, for example, that I just felt my ‘confidence of innocence’ adjust itself downwards. (I would expect a judge to be more likely to be corrupt than a random citizen but also to have less naive vulnerability to obvious manipulations. The latter is relevant here.)