Since January, a total of 26 cases applicable to the citizen judge system have been prosecuted across Taiwan, including 14 cases of homicide, the spokesperson for the Judicial Yuan said in a press conference this week. Seven and six cases have been tried in Taichung and New Taipei District Courts.
The Citizen Judges Act, which took effect on January 1, authorizes the government to randomly select lay people to participate in trial proceedings as citizen judges alongside professional judges in certain felony cases.
