We have the people who did the dirty work, but we don't have the people who hired them.
The timing smells. It seems like more than coincidence. When something like this happens it makes people wonder if this has been a fair and honest trial.
People fudge the truth all the time. Perjury is the big lie, the lie that has an impact on the investigation, on victims.
He's going to wind up with a lot of reluctant, unhappy jurors, ... And if they don't want to be there, they may not listen to the evidence. It's dangerous to force people into jury service.