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Ruth Money: Chief Victims Advisor on whether juries need to be scrapped from sexual violence trials
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The Chief Victims Advisor says scrapping juries from sexual violence trials could result in more fact-based verdicts. Ruth Money believes it would be better for survivors - in part because judges must give reasoning for their verdict. The idea's received some pushback, with one legal expert arguing jury trials are a foundation of the justice system. Money says jurors enter a court with bias, and mightn't understand nuances of sexual assault. "I've had survivors say to me - look, I was slammed around that courtroom like a tennis ball, I was rape-mythed, I was shamed, I was blamed." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.