Has the function of the jury changed over time?

Has the function of the jury changed over time?

Iloilo Jones (Executive Director of Fully Informed Jury Association) gives expert video advice on: Why do we have juries?; What was the first trial by jury?; What is 'The Jury Selection and Service Act'? and more...

The function of the jury hasn't really changed over time. It hasn't changed since the polis, since the earliest times. But there's always been a power struggle between government, which would like to not have juries there as a protection--a bulwark, if you will--between private citizens and government imposing its will upon private citizens and depriving them of their human rights. The jury has always stood between government and the individual to protect the rights of the individual, and that still holds true today.