The dead guy?
So, here is why we are not on the same page. You are trying to provide logic. Trials are mortal combat.
Logic is over run every day by dirty tricks. That is the law. Look up the history of hiring a thug to fight for you...a Champion.
So, it is a thug fight to define justice in this one case. But, the thugs don't define it, they are under the strict rules of evidence. All games are gamed. That is the point. The law is full of loopholes that are ammo for dirty tricks. So fight it out, as you too could go to jail, Mr Lawyers. That judge is armed or I'm a gay baby whale. All are at risk. A trial can end so badly that the judge is kidnapped and then killed. It happened in Marin Ct. in the 70s.
So, I know all this first hand. Back in the 70s my room mate was a trial lawyer that fell backwards into riches from Asbestos litigation. Doing divorces. But, both die before they can be divorced? All ship worker husbands infecting wives? Hey, Mabel, what is 2 + 2?
This all started in Federal Court and they are not playing softball. The dirty tricks cost him $100K that first year, out of pocket.
Now, though, Kenny has skin in the game. He wiped their noses in the dirty tricks after that. He had a box, he said, "of dirt."
It was never out of his sight. Files of what they knew and when they knew it was a killer....back in the 50s.
He would not leave it in the office for fear of break in.
He lives now on 11 acres in Kauai with a 270 degree ocean view. A self made man.