B
But, uh, m-, I think that the, uh, trial by jury is, is a great idea at it's inception back two hundred years ago. Um, right now though it's, it's so difficult because there's so few courts to, to get anything really done as you know you spent, you know, a whole summer on one trial,
A
Uh-huh.
B
and it's just that I think they're just tieing up the, um, whole judicial process. Um, there's a lot of things they could do to, uh, make things easier and, uh, you know, like, uh, the suggestion that, uh, maybe be, uh, a judge should be the one who decides on what the sentence should be rather than the jury.
A
Uh-huh. Well, I think that there are many cases where, uh, the judges probably do make the decision rather than the jury. Our situation was somewhat different, uh, in view of the fact that, uh, we haven't, we were a landmark case, it was the first time in the state of Ohio that, um, D N A testing was entered as evidence.
B
Uh-huh.
A
And they were being, the judge was being especially careful that everything was done correctly so there couldn't be a, a mistrial of any kind.