Sometimes it is difficult to know what we’ve just witnessed. Wisdom and experience tells us that expectations and reality are hardly ever synchronized until events play out in front of our eyes, but even that knowledge won’t overcome our innate prejudices at times and we only slowly adapt to the facts and evidence as they are presented to us.
This has been a known fact in the criminal court system for years. A jury trial has an audience with a host of experience brought into the courtroom that needs to be introduced to a set of circumstances and evidence in such a way as to overcome their thought tendencies and learn the facts of the case in order to arrive a verdict for the prosecution or the defense.