DW_a_mom wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
DW_a_mom wrote:
More likely the prosecutors desperately wanted to deliver for the families of the victims, perhaps be heroes themselves, and just didn't have the acumen.
Or, you know, the law and facts.
When it comes to adversaries sparing, the law and facts do not, unfortunately, always win. I’ve seen some good smoke and mirrors by sharp experts in my time
and have *ahem* succeeded a few times myself (albeit not in a court of law, but it’s the same haggle). It’s great fun, but I have an obvious ethical problem if prosecutors do it with people’s lives, instead of, say, tax dollars or insurance negotiations.
Do tell.
DW_a_mom wrote:
But a very important part of any smoke and mirrors game is assessing the chances of success, because starting on the path and failing will usually get a worse result than not playing at all.
Indeed.
DW_a_mom wrote:
So I don’t know if the prosecutors lacked the acumen to understand their case, felt the show was necessary win or lose, lacked ethics plus lacked the acumen to pull off a win with bad facts, or lacked ethics plus the acumen to know their own limits as magicians. In any of these scenarios, I feel like my description works.
Unfortunately, I only entered the Rittenhouse thread late in the piece, so I don't have a comprehensive view, but from what I did see, it seems the prosecution was pathetic.
Someone mentioned they were appointed by the court, so that may be the reason why they
seemed to lack lacked legal acumen.