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by danielweber 4734 days ago
A court case isn't where each side gets to throw everything they possibly can at the jury and the jury has to figure it all out.

Juries are exposed to carefully controlled subsets of all possible facts. What does this guy's mom do? What kind of cars do the people working at the bank drive? The answers to those questions are true facts but not relevant to the court.