How to Get the Message Across in a Case Without Having to Show the Images to the Jury

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Prosecutors say they have to show the images because most people don't extend their imagination in that direction. "It takes having to see something you don't want to see to understand how bad it was," he says. If not discussed, jurors might have seen them but would be necessary for them to understand what exactly was at stake in the case.

“What we ask jurors to do is to just absorb all this trauma and just to keep on absorbing it and not process it with anyone. Just hold it in and hold it in and hold it in.” A look at what happens during and after a trial – and how some courts are trying to help jurors.

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