Jurors, people and the public can tend to make their mind up early on the matter before they hear the proof in the courtroom.

A tape of that nature has a harmful impact, a hurtful impact to people with pending cases.

[·   Listener. While it's important to be an active listener,] keep in mind that people tend to talk about what doesn't feel OK. They don't talk about relationships that are going well, ... So in many instances, just hearing someone vent and not taking it too seriously is the way to go, unless your spouse asks for your honest reaction or ideas.

Those confessions of moral lapses, in public like this, might allow jurors to conclude that he is resigned, resolved and finally telling his part.

The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.