It is perhaps true you can afford better legal representation, but surely that is true in any modern jurisdiction whether or not a jury is involved. As it happens so would I, but only because US courts seem to hand down preposterously long sentences for what seem like very trivial offences such as tax evasion or possession of cannabis. For the sake of clarity. Sheesh, you could write a book on this, and plenty of people have. The laws define obligations and, in their breach, offences, and penalties for committing those offences.
Juries decide the verdict in a criminal trial, and usually also in a civil trial.
The new is in the old concealed, the old is in the new revealed.