In this week's Legal Issues in the News the University of Illinois College of Law's Suja Thomas discusses juveniles and juries.

On the 21st: We continue our series on summer gun violence and visit the Rockford community. Also, we look at a group of Chicagoland lawyers taking on domestic violence cases to help victims and look at racial bias in jury pools. 

The right to a criminal trial by jury is spelled out in the United States Constitution, both in Article Three, and in the Sixth Amendment.  Despite the right to a trial by jury, fewer than five percent of criminal cases filed in court are actually decided by a jury.  And that’s a problem, according to University of Illinois law professor Suja Thomas.