Supporters of the person would just vote non-guilty and opponents would just vote guilty. It would just result in hung juries over and over.

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      It’s not balanced by a single person. The lawyers from both the prosecution and the defense do it adversarialy.

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      They are. One is the prosecutor and the other is the defense.

      Judges normally follow a very strict procedure on who to kick, like people that may have worked for trump or family, etc, so it’s at least supposed to be objective. The lawyers are the ones sorting subjectively