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Admiralty courts
In smuggling courts there was no juries just a judge.
The story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is a mythyical story from European courts of the middle ages. It has no basis in fact.
Juries are the "Triers of Fact."
According to the ancient historian Thucydides, Pericles strong-armed the democracy into his own power, essentially making Athens a democracy in name only.
the king that developed courts and juries was Louis iii The English king Ethelred the Unready was the first English king to set up a system of juries. Henry II of England in the 12th century ended trial by ordeal.
Vice-admiralty courts were run by officers and did not have juries.
Only trial courts use juries.
Federal District Courts use petit juries since they are are trial courts.
Admiralty courts
US District Courts.
Henry II upon writing the Magna Carta
In smuggling courts there was no juries just a judge.
Admiralty courts
In smuggling courts there was no juries just a judge.
MD Circuit Courts do have juries. It's District Courts that don't. An explanation is at the first related link below. More information and links about MD courts are at the second related link.
Vice-admiralty courts were run by officers and did not have juries.