Actually, they had various methods to determine guilt. One of them involved rounding up 12 suspects. And a judge would give each of those suspects a stick 6 inches long, but he would tell them that the thief's stick would grow an extra inch by the next morning. Invariably, the guilty party would chew off one inch of his stick, and then the next morning he would be there holding a 5-inch admission of guilt stick in his hand. The point is, for the 30-something year that I've been a defense attorney, I have learned one irrefutable truth, and that is criminals are their own worst enemy.