Strong disagree. A judge can be dead wrong, but they have to put their opinion in writing and it's subject to appeal if there are fallacies in it. I would prefer a bench trial.
Yes! What I'm about to say is controversial, if it must be a jury pool, I'd rather have professional jurors then a jury of my peers. That way, how they voted would be on the record and the law books could be cited. (However we felt about the OJ trial circus, some of the jurors said they had already made up their minds even before the trial started!)
