Ah, but they have wealth and power and society's laws behind them, sad to say.

It's like in certain areas of the country decades ago when people openly harassed and murdered African-Americans and other ethnicities and the dominant white society allowed them to continue. All-white juries routinely didn't convict white defendants of crimes against African-Americans because they wanted to uphold the system, which benefited them as well.

So Edmund? Everyone recognizes him as rabid but he's part of the ruling class, and he'll have to cross the line to get slapped down. Which this trial may do, because a lot of people are unhappy about the torture tape.