Impact of Judicial Reform

• The court system had become more fair and less corrupt.
• The judicial system now gave a platform for articulate barristers from the intelligentsia who gained celebrity.
• Juries would at times let off the guilty because they sympathised with them.
• The case of Vera Zasulich in 1878 is a great example of sympathetic juries as she shot General Trepov who ordered the flogging of a soldier for refusing to remove his cap.

  Zasulich was acquitted despite her obvious guilt.
• Special procedures were introduced for political crimes and trial by jury was not used in Poland, the Caucasus, church and military courts.