Of course in practice you want to be somewhere in-between extremes. You probably don't want to allow daft arguments about specific wording when it's pretty clea

Of course in practice you want to be somewhere in-between extremes. You probably don't want to allow daft arguments about specific wording when it's pretty clear there's a correct interpretation. On the other hand you don't want guilty/not-guilty to become entirely detached from the text of law. It's tricky stuff with a lot of grey area which is why judges are important people.