[Retric]

The entire point of a jury of your peers is to prevent unreasonable laws being used to convict people.

[andrewhillman]

What? The law is the law. The entire point of a jury is to find the defendant guilty or not guilty of said issue at hand - the law!

[Retric]

Do you honestly think that 12 random people are going to understand the law better than say a 3 judge panel?

There are a few benefits as for example Juries are harder to bribe and sequestered juries are harder to tamper with. But, the core issue and why they were considered so important is there a check on unjust laws or even just laws unjustly applied.