[FreeTheHostages]

ping -- check out post 897. I mention you there. I'm not sure it matters here what lawyers think for the reasons I set forth above.

[ContemptofCourt]

TO a degree, it does. Reading the transcripts you can see what the defense strategy was, how they were trying to make their case. Then, being an "evil trial lawyer", knowing that I have been in tough spots making tough arguments, it can be deduced as to what they are working with.

In the end, it is the jury's decision. And you have to trust the system to work. However, one of the defining characteristics of FR is the intense distrust of the system. Thus, any argument you or I may make will fall on deaf ears.

Fact is, evidence is excluded for a reason. If the Defense had legal authority to put evidence in, then they would have presented it to the court. If they did so, it was rejected. Get over it.