[Nage Waza]

Originally Posted by flylock shox

There's always the danger of activist judges, but usually those types of decisions are based on interpretations of law and can be appealed.

My concern with juries (other than the resource drain) is that they have trouble applying the law, particularly in complex cases, to the facts, and jury members are by and large going to be more biased and emotional in their decision making on issues of credibility, which aren't appealable.

Jury selection in Canada seems come down to the stereotying abilities of counsel choosing jury members (e.g. if I'm prosecuting a black dude for dealing weed, I'm going to weed out black dudes, white dudes with dreadlocks, young people generally, people with visibe tattoos, while trying to pack as many conservative old potential racists onto the jury as I can).

Sounds like you are the person with issues stereotyping.