Jury: a historical and principled analysis of their decisions on the prism of legal certainty

Abstract

The study lies in the research of history and the evolution of the jury. Therefore exposes the lack of motivation of the jury's sentence as a consequence of the problems between the jurors. Reports the need to discuss changes in order to ensure greater legal security procedure to the accused in order to preserve the Greek conception of the institute. You can not deprive the jurors to discuss and analyze each other crime that are judging, it is one of the main tools of democracy: the dialectic. The result of long discussions in committee, the scholars came to suggest the legislator a new text for the procedure in the jury, which will appear in the New Code of Criminal Procedure, currently under discussion in the House of Representatives. The new article will allow jurors debate each other for a whole hour before uttering the verdict, meaning the resumption of a fundamental right overshadowed with the shadows of dictatorship.