I think it goes back to what I said about how the trier of fact is supposed to assess credibility and reliability using common sense and ordinary experience. That isn't anything any of us are taught in law school. It's supposed to come to us naturally. That's a 500-year-old approach, and I think we've become better at recognizing that it's deficient, particularly when you are asked to judge somebody who has a very different background and perspective, and maybe a different culture, and who certainly comes from a different place than you do. It's not that easy to crawl under somebody's skin, necessarily, when you are sitting on the bench or when you are in your prosecutor's robes.
On April 11th, 2017. See this statement in context.