When the judge doesn't you will cry foul. That's your playbook. If the judge decides as you say i will simply be surprised and accept
being wrong. No big deal in the whole scheme of things. The defendants are guilty that's all we have to know and deal with.
Your projection on "bragging rights" is just that. We don't need any. People as you and Trump do. You said it.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”