George Costanza
A Friendly Liberal
If the juries are capable of judging the facts they are equally capable of judging the law. In fact, if you ask me, the facts would almost always be the harder of those two tasks.
"Judging the law" in what context? Would that include ruling on admissibility of evidence?
"Objection. Inadequate foundation." The judge turns to the foreperson of the jury. "Mr. Foreperson, how does the jury rule on this question? The foreperson, who is a plumber by trade, turns to the other eleven jurors. All he gets are 11 blank stares.
That what you're talking about here? You do see, I hope, how totally unworkable something like that would be.
Precisely what are you talking about when you say that a jury should be able to "judge the law"?