These juries were often venal and corrupt, and it was a notorious fact that their verdicts could be bought.
The transferring of the juries to the Equites made Gaius for a time very powerful.

He caused another law to be passed, to the effect that no Roman citizen should be put to death without legal trial and an appeal to the assembly of the people.
But the plan of Gaius to extend the franchise to all the Italians ruined his popularity.

The Roman citizens had no desire to share their rights with the Etruscans and Samnites.

Riots again broke out, as ten years before.

The aristocracy again armed itself.