There is the fiction of the law and the reality of what really happens. If anyone thinks many on this non sequestered jury has not been reading about this case in their off time, I have a bridge to sell you. The other cardinal principles of courtroom fact over fiction is prospective jurors do indeed lie a lot during voir dire, no one has an agenda, judges rarely exercise their bias and interested witness telling the whole truth is something that happens in movies not in courtrooms. Sometimes the law works and sometimes it doesn’t, but it seems to serve its intended purpose of keeping people from killing each other over a legal dispute as a go to to settle them.
Agreed. On the bright side, even most of the news coverage has been pretty negative towards the prosecution, many admitting it’s an extremely weak case.