The justice charity claims it found majority verdicts were introduced in 1967 for racist and classist reasons and have since contributed to dozens of miscarriages of justice.
The risk is that you're going to convict the innocent and let the guilty go free. That's 17% of the jury, so you've only got 83% at the most who are for the conviction.
Mr Malkinson was one of more than 50 people who had been convicted by majority verdicts but later proved innocent.
By trawling archives, they found evidence that majority verdicts were introduced in direct response to new rules that meant anybody on the electoral roll could serve on a jury. Previously, only people who own...
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