Why would you have a trial if you already knew the truth? Edit: I appear to have been overly vague. My point is that you can't reward a prosecutor for producin

Why would you have a trial if you already knew the truth? Edit: I appear to have been overly vague. My point is that you can't reward a prosecutor for producing a "truthful" outcome unless you know the truth to compare with. If you knew the absolute truth then an adversarial trial system would be expensive and redundant.