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Judges, Lay: The constitutional law provides for the participation of  
Jurors and lay judges, who have no legal qualifications, in criminal 
proceedings. They are chosen from electoral registers by means of 
random sampling. Lay judges in case of proceedings in juvenile courts 
must be teachers or educators. Every citizen with a clean criminal 
record from the age of 25 to 65 years is obliged to act as an unpaid 
lay judge. If this obligation constitutes an excessive burden, the law 
provides for an exemption.


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