About 35 years ago I was the foreman on a jury in Albuquerque (receiving stolen goods). After the trial, entering the jury room, and going around the table for the first time one of the women ( a generation older than me) said: "It's either going to be guilty or a hung jury!" I was slightly taken aback and asked her why she felt so strongly since there were some questionable legal issues. Her reply lives with me to this day: "If he wasn't guilty the DA wouldn't have charged him." I naturally felt she had somewhat missed the point of a jury trial. Today however I recognize that DAs don't bring cases to trial they are not certain to win. Its not like I don't believe that DA's don't on occasion lie steal and cheat to win - its just I don't believe beyond a vanishingly small number it's to convict an innocent person. Sure it happens but you've a better chance of being eaten by a shark. If I had asked that woman then if she believed in the law or justice she would have anwered justice, today I would probably say the same. They are manifestly not the same thing.