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I've attended the vast most of 3 murder tirals. Even learning as much as any juror, or more because of being able to do outside research, one never learns "the whole story", "the whole truth" like on Dragnet. The real world is chock full of grey. Grey makes you think things out and out and out. Good exersize fot the grey matter. Hmmmmmmm?

Our legal system is built on "benefit of doubt". If you can't piece it together, let it go. HARD, huh?

Even in front of stacks of evidence, people see what they are looking for, trying to prove is true, rather than neutrally looking for truth. That's why pretrial publicity is so bad. People pick up impressions and try to fill those impressions out, pick and choose which evidence to believe unconsciously as much as consciously.

That's why there are 12 jurors. Hopefully each will get enough of the truth in them that behind the closed doors of the jury room they can reconstruct as close to true of what happened as humanly possible under the circumstances of a trial.

Truth takes time.