After all of the stuff I’ve read about this trial I think I’m just too dumb to be on a jury, because to be honest, if a defense attny ever raised goofy things that seemed to not make sense I would just see them as a defense attny who was grasping at straws and if anything it would make me think he had no other options. I guess it’s why I never get chosen for juries. Is the average juror really that dumb?
The problem is you’re looking at a difference set of information. The jury didn’t get all the stuff the judge kept out, it didn’t get all the guessing by legal “experts”. 90% of the stuff you’ve read about the trial they didn’t hear. But what they DID get to hear was a prosecuting attorney admit they didn’t now how she died, when she died, and imply they were really sure who killed her other than it being somebody in the house.
I took a few Criminal Law classes in the 70s and at that time they said lawyers needed to speak to the jury as if they all had about a 5th grade education in order to be sure they weren’t talking over their heads. Not sure if that is the case now or if the grade level has changed.