Why is the jury important to the legal system?

Answer 1

To ensure that the accused get the right to a far trail and to use the American legal system to administer justice. As you have seen in the Amanda Knox case people deserve the right to a fair trail. In this case the trail was biased by newspapers and what not and since the jury was not sequestered the trail was biased.

Answer 2

Very important.

No matter how good an attorney is, the decision after arguments falls to the jury. It is important to keep a diverse jury that won't be biased by ethnicity, gender, or age.

For example: suppose a young Hispanic male is accused of stealing goods from a local store, and the owner is an elderly african-american male.

Would the verdict of a predominantly african-american jury be fair to the young Hispanic male? We do not know, but in this case, there may be some bias.

A jury that consists of male and females of different ethnic background, religion, age, etc. may help gear the case towards a fair verdict

Questions are posed to the jurors during selection. Some jurors may have been victims of crimes before, and so, their reasoning towards those accused of committing crimes may be different than someone who has never been victim of a crime.

In short, Jury selection is important because we need people to render a verdict without considering who or what the accused is: only what the accused is being accused of.

Answer 3

because the jury is the group of people who listen to other peoples problems and decides who is guilty and who is not.

Answer 4

To make the outcome fair so that no-one knows anyone else in the court