crackgina said:
I think everyone, even those supporting the same agenda, can see that TNT is not interested in the facts. Snide comments about "the faithful", the "victim", and trying to talk about the carnage that will now be JJ's life, regardless of the outcome, show TNT to be unbalanced and, ironically, a powder keg. 75 you will never get a debate on the facts because TNT can't win using facts and "it's" agenda is about winning, not justice or truth.
I think juries are particularly sensitive to the impact of cases like this on young lives. When they sense that prosecutions are agenda driven, rather than justice driven, that's when prosecutions fail miserably.
Juries also appreciate careful recognition of facts, in particular acknowledgement of them rather than obfuscation of them.
This thread, which is primarily a "TNT" seminar on "how to avoid facts and pretend that it will all be decided by facts we don't know" is precisely the approach that juries abhor.
"Easily explained" emails -- which he didn't do on this thread oddly enough -- is exactly what juries look at. "This clown said he would "explain" the plain meaning and why it meant the exact opposite, and then didn't/couldn't/wouldn't."
Stretching the truth doesn't work.
Pretending this is really about a bigger picture doesn't work.
Feuding with the complaining witness, who says JJ's a nice guy, just looks petty and ridiculous.
And someone will ask, in the jury room, "do alcohol fueled sexual predators after a violent rape usually ask for a ride home?"
And then say "well, thanks," when they get out of the car?
Really?