With regard to the excellent BBC Drama "The Verdict", I posted this on the associated discussion forum, under the title "It was the only possible outcome!", but reproduce it here nonetheless:
No system of justice is perfect, but ours is pretty good; has stood the test of time; and definitely is not going to be shaken by the outcome of a BBC drama.
The jury's task was to try the case on the evidence not the arguments and, yes "Anna" was very believable, so well you may ask, “Why would she make this all up?", but we all know that people do not always tell the truth.
However, although both the victim and the defendants were "found" to have lied to the police; only "Anna" chose to lie in court when she clearly did not have to. She therefore handed the members of the jury the decisive piece of evidence on which to determine (since no case was proven) whom they should believe.
End of story.
15 February 2007
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