Transplanting Jury Trials in South Korean Legal Soils: Comparative Analysis with Jury Trials in the United States
- Authors
- Lee, John Sanghyun
- Issue Date
- Jun-2016
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Keywords
- Civil Participation in Criminal Trial Act (CPCTA) of 2007; 2013 revision bill of the CPCTA; Jury trial; Right to have a jury trial; Legal transplant; Implementing jury trials in Korea
- Citation
- ASIAN JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY, v.11, no.2, pp.111 - 133
- Journal Title
- ASIAN JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 111
- End Page
- 133
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/5549
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11417-015-9224-z
- ISSN
- 1871-0131
- Abstract
- Jury trials, known as common-law institution centering on the UK and the USA, for the first time in Korean adjudicatory history, have been transplanted into Korean legal soils under cultural and political climate with legal roots of the "Civil Participation in Criminal Trial Act (CPCTA) of 2007" since 2008. This research examines legal and operational issues of jury trials through comparative analysis between the United States and South Korea. Several legal characteristics of 2013 revision bill of CPCTA, proposed by the Committee of Civil Participation in the Judiciary (CCPJ), are to be pointed out: so-called "civil participation" approach, de facto binding power of jury verdict and sentencing, and a stricter standard for a jury verdict or decision (3/4 majority). Statistical results from planting jury trials in both American and Korean legal system proved to be very similar. Meanwhile, a 2013 revision bill has to overcome several practical and legal obstacles, such as low usage of jury trials, the high rate of judicial dismissal of defendants' petitions, and violation of Article 27 of the Korean Constitution. Under the current legislative scheme, judges in Korean courts need to operate jury trials in such a careful and respectful way that the revision may neglect neither a defendant's right to jury trial nor jury's verdict. Legal scholars, experts, and legislators with interests in implementing jury trials in Korea should research on ways to expand the system to other judicial procedures such as juvenile, civil, family, and administrative cases.
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