One room, 12 people. Different professions, characters, experience. To entrust the destiny to jurors – the right accused. Murders, sale of drugs and another matters, where punishment – up to lifelong. Simple people make difficult decisions. Everyone who is more senior than 25 can sit down in this chair, is not judged, capable. Candidates choose in a random way from electoral registers. Marianna refused such invitation. Overcame doubts.
Marianna, inhabitant of Novosibirsk: "And someone will protect me? And when will pass meetings, someone from work will interrogate me, whether to me it will pay? What in general with it to do to me? "
threats Arrive? Data will transfer to militiamen. It is possible to take and rejection. For refusal to manage justice will not punish, and here for participation in process will reward – slightly less than one thousand rubles a day.
Turchenko Anna, judge Regional court of Novosibirsk: "The juror takes part in consideration of the case, assumes functions of the judge: jurors are judges-fakto. Work of the judge as is paid. Jurors are exempted from the main work for this period".
Krom of facts of the case, jurors should not know anything about the defendant – for objectivity of a verdict.
Gerasimenko Olesya, correspondent: "The decision of jurors does not have to be obligatory unanimous. The verdict – is guilty or not – is taken out by a majority vote and if voices were divided equally, the decision is treated in favor of the defendant".
Among inhabitants the opinion that court jurors – more loyal settled. Professionals appeal to statistics and history Russian Federation.
Rimma Shatovkina, chairman Regional court of Novosibirsk: "From 1876 to 1891 40 percent of justificatory verdicts were rendered. And if to tell about practice Regional court of Novosibirsk – in five years only two justificatory verdicts" were rendered.
Since June 1 the board of jurors Regional court of Novosibirsk becomes less – assessors there will be not dozen, and eight. For the first time they will earn in district and city courts, in everyone – on six people. Judges treat an innovation as a trust sign to judicial system.