I would agree with you in principle - although I was in a jury a year ago and saw some very similar from the prosecution and thought 'nobody would ever buy this

I would agree with you in principle - although I was in a jury a year ago and saw some very similar from the prosecution and thought 'nobody would ever buy this ridiculous attempt just to paint the defendant as the kind of guy that is guilty!' And then as soon as I got in the jury room, I found that 3-4 people had fallen for this technique hook, line and sinker. Prosecutions do this because, unfortunately, it works. Often jury trials unfortunately aren't about objective proof, they are about feelings and convincing the lay-public.