Prosecutors must seek justice, and not simply a conviction. However, once a case goes to trial, the subculture of winning is a difficult pressure to ignore. You are a prosecuting attorney in a rural county in Wyoming, trying a murder case. You know that most of the jurors that you will seat have no real scientific sense of what kinds of physical evidence are more valid than others. Are there kinds of physical evidence that you will not introduce into court, because they are too unreliable, even though the jurors will not know the difference? If so, why? If not, why not?
What will be an ideal response?
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