The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.
And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.