You can't tell from watching a trial on TV what jurors were told to consider, or how they consider it. Yet newspapers and TV outlets try cases anyway, and get very upset when they're wrong. That's our problem, and their problem, not that of the jury system.
I'm pretty sure Nancy Grace and her lynch-mob friends are still furious the kid got off in "12 Angry Men." We have too many Lee J. Cobbs on TV and not enough Henry Fondas.
