I don’t … I just don’t think we should pretend that we judge people on trial solely on “facts” and not on the thousands of feelings, hunches and statistical intuitions we impart to a situation.
I’m not saying the Zimmerman jury got it wrong. I don’t know the Florida laws. It sounds like they were pretty good about following the letter if the law and if so I commend them for it.
However, what makes the jury sometimes want to be punctilious about the law and sometimes not may be matters unrelated to pure fact, if there even is such a thing…
