Notable extracts
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Ben Myers called them elastic theories. If she was there it proves she did it. If she was not there, she must have planned it in advance. You cannot disprove a theory that elastic.
Host
The story model of jury decision-making tells us that jurors do not weigh individual pieces of evidence. They construct a narrative and then fit the evidence into it.
Host
No harmful act was ever witnessed. Not once in the entire trial did anyone say they saw Lucy Letby harm a child. Everything was inference and narrative.
Host
The adversarial system is designed to find the most persuasive story, not the most accurate one. When the evidence is medical and scientific, that is a catastrophic design flaw.