Is it not the staff, but expert-witnesses? Of course the influence of the technical advisory is subjective, so is the judge's. Arguably, more subjectivity level

Is it not the staff, but expert-witnesses? Of course the influence of the technical advisory is subjective, so is the judge's. Arguably, more subjectivity levels out the preciseness of the judgement, it's a compromise, but certainly not unwelcome, when jury is invited to weigh out bias with it's own necessarily biased opinion. You can't get that out of the equation, because ...