They said they would have a hard time getting a guilty verdict. They did not say he was innocent and side-stepped the question on innocence. . .implying they thought he was guilty.
I do indeed understand the difference, and it is an important one.
69 posted on 12/05/2013 3:22:10 PM PST by lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)