All of the metaphors employed. Mountain, linear algebra. The one I employed, that I thought best got to the quality of evidence not the quantity: “Ten cups of weak coffee don’t make a pot of strong coffee.”
How’s that look now, Benjamin?
Ordinary building + ordinary courtroom + ordinary jury room painted “municipal” + ordinary juror x 12=Extraordinary.
It’s the counter-intuitive hope and faith and promise of the American experiment in democracy, and in the Anglo-American jury system: ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
Yes. Fanfare for the Common Man.
