The jury is always a finder of fact , while the judge always rules on the applicability of law to facts found by the fact finder. Justice Justice is both a metaphysical and a political concept, i.e., philosophers agree there is a divine justice that rules everything and everyone, while the political machinery of human institutions can only regulate the behavior of individuals in the name of the state. The two forms of justice are clearly not the same. Justice in the divine sense is rule of God by which goodness and truth eventually triumph over evil and deception. Justice in this sense is an eternal unseen framework that reaches beyond human reason to bring about the destruction of evil and deception by prospering goodness and truth.
Human justice can never be more than an approximation of the divine, therefore.
Human justice is fraught with failures. Sometimes the rule of the state is good and sometimes it is wholly evil and corrupt, serving self-interest instead of justice. Men mete out human justice in accordance with written laws penned by mortals serving their own self-interest. God, on the other hand, measures each of us according to a higher justice that obeys a simpler and yet far more comprehensive set of laws. Divine justice always abides in the truth, ruling galaxies of stars as well as every form of human enterprise.