Witty Rejoinder said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

roughbarked said:

Good question.

What if all the jurors had the same level of knowledge as a judge?

Would the jurors be making better decisions?

Defendants can choose to have a judge only trial.

Not everywhere. Over in WA they are quite rare and only granted in cases where there has been extensive media hype and speculation etc and therefore the court thinks the person might not get a fair consideration from the jury.