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One of the hardest tasks awaiting members of the public who will join professional judges to preside over a defendant's fate under the new lay judge system is expected to be determining a sentence for those who are found guilty.
The responsibility for deciding sentences is basically not borne by juries in the United States and the United Kingdom, but it is shared by jurors in the "mixed court" system in some European countries, including France, Italy and Germany.