The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of the crime, perhaps - and be confident that the jury would deduce all of the finer-grained implications that must logically follow.

Keeping politics out of the courtroom is a goal every state aspires to achieve.

A defendant can use discovery to run out the clock on the plaintiff and to make the plaintiff run out of money.

I support an equal playing field for plaintiffs and defendants - and the way to get that equal playing field is not by having unlimited discovery.