Knox's judge explains guilty verdict

[Fred Sanders]

12. Legal judgments are often reserved for periods of time. For the judges to explain in detail the

Italy does not try anybody by a jury of peers: everyone is judged by professional judges or by a panel of judges (three or five or nine). The only exception to the use of professional judges is in the Corte d'Assise, which is made up of eight judges: two are professional, six are lay (they are called Giudici Popolari or Popular Judges, where 'popular' means 'of the people'). All wear a sash in the national colours. They are not technically jurors, as the term is understood in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence. In Italian, Giudice (Judge) refers both to the eight of them together as a collective body[22] and to each of them considered separately as a member of that body. Legal judgments are often reserved even after the verdict, the verdict being the thing needed most quickly, not the detailed rationale.

Italian law and legal procedure are clearly much different than America, the same words have different meanings, they do use Italian after all.
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