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What American Mother is telling you in a polite lawyerly way is that it does not matter what you think, nor what she thinks.
The trial will not take place in front of 12 knowledgeable horsemen.

Lawyers pick jurors who can be swayed by their arguments.

Schoolteachers, barbers, lathe operators. People who have had no experience with horses.

The defendant's attorney would like to have a couple on the jury, but the plaintiff will excuse them.

Now take someone who knows nothing about horses and put before him that this horse "stomped on" etc.

And the defendant knew it.

And why would she take it?

Because our system is set up believing that anyone and everyone, no matter how silly they might seem to you, is entitled to his day in court. What is silly to you and me could well be the most serious event in his life.

So everyone is entitled to a good lawyer, if only to see that the law is properly interpreted. Even if the villain is indefensible, he is entitled to have the law applied to him correctly, in accordance with the law and the Constitution.

With that, I am going to the house. A good ride on a beautiful day is the next thing on order.