Don’t we teach civics anymore?
The entire point of a jury is to insure that an innocent man is not convicted because of bias or hate.
Therefore, the jury is to be composed of HIS peers.
That puts a final “STOP” to any attempt by the state to railroad someone on bias or hate grounds;
and even a tyrannical state cannot CONVICT someone it goes
after (although it can charge and prosecute him) if HIS OWN PEERS refuse to support the state.
The “victim” isn’t in need of any “protection” from the state, and so doesn’t have a say.
(And why insist that members of a lynch mob be included on a jury which will judge the one they are trying to get?)
A “community” isn’t in danger from a conviction, either;
so it has no reason to be represented on a jury.
(Why put klan members on a jury in the old South to judge
an accused black man—just to satisfy “the community”?)
A jury is always and 100% meant to protect an innocent defendant.
Nothing else.
And weakening that protection is simply giving the lynch mob a say in a conviction.