Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the trial by jury:analysis of the work “The brothers Karamázov”
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamázov, trial by jury, law and literatureAbstract
This article aims to analyze Fyodor Dostoevsky's perception of the jury's court procedure and the performance of legal professionals in this context, as portrayed in the judgment of Dimitri Karamázov in the work Brothers Karamázov. Thus, the present paper deals with the Russian judicial reform of 1864, responsible for the introduction of the jury system in the country, and how Dostoevsky understood this profound change in the system to then deal with the object of the article. In this paper, the atmosphere built by the author about the procedure is analyzed, as well as the description of the law operators involved and the verdict itself, an opportunity in which it is concluded that the author traces a negative, even satirical, perception about the jury court, thus characterizing it as both dramatic and comic at the same time. It is concluded that for the author, this space becomes a theater in which lawyers are concerned with rhetoric to the detriment of facts and that juries are prone to commit judicial errors.
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