ABSTRACT
Iudicia populi survived into the first century BC, but only in a state of obsolescence, becoming more of a museum-piece than a vital cog in the machinery of criminal justice. The mid-second century saw the start of a radical reorganization of the criminal courts. Permanent jury-courts (quaestiones perpetuae) were created for a broad range of crimes, and by the end of the first century BC the new iudicia publica had completely supplanted the iudicia populi.
