For this reason if no other, his public judgment would lay down a marker around which average opinion could coalesce.

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How much easier the contest would be if some widely watched, widely respected authority figure offered his public judgment on the faces in the photographs, telling readers whom he deemed the prettiest.

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The public rushed to judgment long before the young men were eventually acquitted.

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