It’s a jaundiced view but a lot of American society seems predicated around the idea that the person with power is correct. Whether that’s a policeman or corporate shareholders or your obviously incompetent president.
As someone who recently sat through jury selection, it's a remarkably common view. So many American citizens revere the badge, are willing to trust the person in uniform despite evidence to the contrary, and automatically assume the person sitting in the defendant's chair is guilty.
Based on your lucid comments in this thread I’m guessing you were not selected for the jury.
Between the 2 attorneys and the judge, one of them might have been disbarred if I was allowed on a jury. I was in the jury box as a potential juror for a few days, but was challenged out.