Unfortunately I was talking about two things simultaneously without making the connection.<p>One, with professional juries (judges) a high conviction rate is achieved in Japan, possibly contributed to by the cozy relationship between attorneys and judges as well as some deficiencies in how its determined when to take a case in addition to laws and in addition to police misconduct.<p>One of the reasons (there were others, such as decreasing backlog) for the introduction of lay judges (&quot;peer&quot; jurors) was because it&#x27;s thought they could prove more sympathetic to defendants.