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The principle of non-retroactivity of laws is applicable in criminal matters, meaning that a law which defines an act as a crime cannot be applied to crimes committed before that law was enacted and thus not prosecuted; or a law that increases the punishment for a crime is in no way applicable to crimes previously committed.
The judgment of this jury was dual-natured alongside the Heliaets, meaning that while judging, they took into account both legal rulings and factual matters and occurring events; however, it must be said that their judgment had more of a substantive and actual aspect rather than a rule-based aspect, meaning they considered more sensations, realities, and manifest daily affairs rather than the subconscious, vague, harsh, and rigid provisions of the law.
Another form of jury existed in ancient Rome which, in terms of democracy, was almost different from the Greek juries and today's juries, because the Roman jury had an aristocratic aspect and was composed of the notables and aristocrats of the country; even though in Rome a classification existed where the lower classes were deprived of many privileges, including participation in the jury and adjudication.
In 1215, the Fourth Council of Lateran nartaLedelicnoC (Lateran was a palace in ancient Rome that served as the residence of the Great Pope for ten centuries) abolished rulings regarding duels and the burning of persons, which were barbaric forms of punishment ueiDedtnemeguJ: it seems unreasonable and contrary to sentiment that sensible human beings could think that dueling and burning could be one of the ways to prove criminality.
) Based on this aforementioned theory, it was believed that the jury should only judge non-political crimes.