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European countries have a jury system, usually reserved to criminal cases with long sentences, like a murder.

Germany is the exception. Abolished jury in 1924.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_trial



While technically true, I wouldn't characterise that as "hav[ing] a jury system" but of those systems making use of a jury in exceptional cases or a very limited capacity. Even then I would feel it mischaracterised the system to anyone from the Anglosphere.

Greece, for instance, has a jury made up of judges. That's not a jury, that's an equivocation!




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