yeah it seems like if you break the sentencing away from the jury and give it you give it to one person you're letting there be a whole lot more of an opportunity for something to either go wrong or for you know if if if the judge is not of high moral standards he could be bought off at much easier than twelve people could
There is a lot of opportunities for something to go wrong if one person decides sentencing.
The peculiar result of the credibility of modern central bankers as inflation hawks is that no matter how much money the Bank of Japan prints now , it doesn't  It can't lower the nominal interest rate, because that rate is already zero, and because people don't believe that it will allow inflation to break out any time in the future, it can't lower the real interest rate either.