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The confusion isn't why the video is a problem, but why the defense made this argument, rather than the prosecution.

It's confusing yeah, but after getting a sentence you don't want, you'll use any reason to discredit the trial, even if it was something seemingly in your favor, also even if the video and the judge's reaction were in favor of the perpetrator, it's possible the jury did not like it and had a negative reaction.

> it's possible the jury did not like it and had a negative reaction.

This video was played in the sentencing phase. In a non-capital case, the sentencing phase is normally judge-only, the jury has already been discharged. So the video had no impact on the jury, since by the time it was played their role in the case was already over.

Well it got his sentence quashed didn't it

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