The System Of Experts As Jurors In Criminal Cases

With the raise of technology and the growth of high technological crime types and quantities, much professional knowledge beyond the acquaintance of judges will be involved, which raises great difficulties on trial. The main affect is that it is hardly to authenticate cross-examination in referred to some professional issues cases. The lack of professional knowledge of judges, will not only affect the trial efficiency, but also have some certain negative impact on"fairness" pursued on trial. In nowadays legal system in china, the most straightforward and effective way to improve this situation is to reform the currently jurors system of criminal cases, adding system of non-legal experts as juror.In this article, it describes the basic theory of non-legal expert as jurors in criminal cases, through illustrating its conception, its features, its scope and its difference to related terms the and its functions, helping readers acknowledge a brief summary of the system of non-legal expert as jurors in criminal cases. Then with the breakpoints of current jurors system and evaluation system, via study and discuss of their defects'aspect, it dissertates the necessity and practicability of establishment of system of non-legal experts as jurors in criminal cases. In the end, it sums up a specific design for the system of non-legal experts as jurors in criminal cases, which contains the qualifications of non-legal experts as jurors, the appointment way, the participation way, the scope of application, the right/obligation, and related supporting system. The author expects it would be benefit to our judicial trial and judicial expertise.