Editing Jury trial (section)

===Singapore===
[[Singapore]] fully abolished the jury system in 1969,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-11877.html|title='Judiciary', Singapore - A Country Study}}</ref> though jury trials for non-capital offenses had already been abolished a decade earlier. Prime Minister [[Lee Kuan Yew]], a former trial lawyer, explained why he supported the policy to the BBC and in his memoirs, saying, "I had no faith in a system that allowed the superstition, ignorance, biases, and prejudices of seven jurymen to determine guilt or innocence."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postcolonialweb.org/singapore/government/leekuanyew/lky2.html|title=Lee Kuan Yew's Opposition to Trial by Jury
|author=George P. Landow}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=June 2024}}