[vidarh]

Norway abandoned juries recently, and in a perfect example of why the last case decided by jury involved a case where the jury provably returned a verdict that was logically impossible (two questions that were dependent in such a way that one of the four combinations was impossible if they followed instructions; the jury returned the one impossible combination)

The "new" system is a variation of what has long been used for non-jury cases, with some variation: A panel of judges where a minority are professional, legally trained judges and the majority are "lay judges" drawn from effectively the same pool as the juries. The total number of judges on the panel depends on the type of case and potential length of a sentence. They all deliberate together.