Note that ‘guilt’ and ‘innocence’ is normally settled by a jury (for serious cases), and that most (interesting) judicial decisions are on cases that don’t have a binary outcome, and the reasoning by which they make the decision is an important part of the precedent set by their decision. It seems like this method can still work for that, but this exacerbates concerns that things will be ‘decided by the lowest common denominator’ instead of whatever the ‘legal truth’ should be.
Note that ‘guilt’ and ‘innocence’ is normally settled by a jury (for serious cases), and that most (interesting) judicial decisions are on cases that don’t have a binary outcome, and the reasoning by which they make the decision is an important part of the precedent set by their decision. It seems like this method can still work for that, but this exacerbates concerns that things will be ‘decided by the lowest common denominator’ instead of whatever the ‘legal truth’ should be.