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- Russia’s Supreme Court is drafting legislation to let judges join jury deliberations and shrink panels to four.
- Presiding judges may clarify questions during deliberations but will not vote on guilt.
- Reform would allow citizens over 65 to serve on juries.
- Reform would let defendants refuse jury trials after they are scheduled.
- In 2025, jury trials were 0.1% of 640,000 criminal cases, with about one-third acquitted.
