Good God. You're a teacher?
Google your own research. It's been reported the jury kept falling asleep during the trial and they weren't paying attention. The only person paying attention was an alternate.
I'm a lay person conveying what was reported. Not a fucking data analyst.
No one can know what goes on in about person's head 100%. Your demanding the impossible as proof while conveniently ignoring that position makes the inverse a liability for you. You cannot know for certainty that they hadn't already made up their minds. Prove to me that they hadn't. Where is your data? See the fallacy?
This ridiculousness ignores the need for an abundance of caution in legal matters. Juries need to be free from influence. Juries need to pay attention. Juries need to work to mitigate their inherent bias.
This trial never should have been made public or offered up for public consumption. Given the notoriety of the participants, the jury should have been sequestered. I say that regardless of whether or not it would have changed the verdict because allowing the trial to be a circus undermines our justice system as a whole, which only works when people believe in it.
Also, your students doze off because they’re not getting enough sleep. That’s a false equivalence