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the reform of the jury system was explained in the Rada (video) – UNIAN
For the first two years, juries will only consider cases where the maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
Bills adopted today in parliament introduce jury trials in Ukraine, following the example of those operating in the USA and EU countries. People's Deputy of Ukraine Pavel Frolov said this at a briefing regarding the adoption of bills 3843 and 3844 in parliament today.
“Today in Ukraine, legal proceedings are carried out by 3 institutions – single judges, a panel of judges and a jury. In Ukraine, the so-called jury trial was actually introduced by the Party of Regions – they simply took and in the Criminal Procedure Code called the institution of “people's assessors” a jury trial, in which judges have a great influence…
