> not sure they could find a jury to convict them

A trial should be about setting forth the law and the facts and letting the jury handle any relevant "leaky abstractions".

It's fairly clear that the act was illegal. If the facts conclusively show that J. Random Somebody pulled the trigger, then conviction should be the non-leaky return from the jury() function.

But, then, IANAL, and our legal system has seemed less than water-tight of late, so we'll see.