[BunnySlippers]

The defendant in ALL cases MUST be presumed INNOCENT.

Only by the jury ... The general public is not held to the same standard.

[UCANSEE2]

Only by the jury ... The general public is not held to the same standard.

So what?

[MizSterious]

" Only by the jury ... The general public is not held to the same standard."

Two things. 1. The jury has been instructed to presume innocence until all the evidence is in. 2. If the jury is really watching the same evidence we're watching, they'll have questions. Probably many, perhaps all, of the same ones we have. In a sense, the jury is the general public, just a small sample of us.

[pyx]

Only by the jury ... The general public is not held to the same standard.

The jury is made up of people selected from the general public. Fortunately the selection process can often weed out potential jurors who are predisposed to gathering around bellfreys with mobs armed with torches and pitchforks screaming, "Kill him ! Kill him!". Sadly, the selection process on some of these threads has no such selection process.