刑事陪审团制度价值的再思考
The Continued Thought on Value of the Criminal Jury System

由于陪审团分割了法官的审判权,陪审团代表的民主主义正义观与法官代表的法治主义正义观有时就存在着冲突,二者的冲突通过合理配置陪审团的权力解决。刑事陪审团在个案中的罪裁决具有终局效力,有否决法律适用的功能,使法治主义在个案中让位于民主主义,防止法律在个案中变成危害公民自由的恶法。但陪审团作出的有罪裁决不具有终局效力,需要经过法治主义的检测,这样可以防止危害公民自由的民主暴政发生。从陪审团的权力配置可以看出,陪审团制度虽是一项民主制度,但却以保护公民自由为优先价值目的,而并非司法民主。
In the criminal court, the democracy idea of justice which is represented by Jury and the legalism idea of justice which is represented by the judge have conflict sometimes; the conflict between both sides is solved by the criminal Jury authority system. The criminal jury has veto function to legal application in the case of a verdict of unguilty, which renders the legalism make place for democracy to prevent law harm human rights in criminal case. However, the Jury doesn’t have the rights to create law, which renders the democracy make place for legalism and can prevent accidents of democratic tyranny. From the institutional arrangement of criminal jury authority system, its preferential value is to protect human freedom, and not to realize judicial democracy.