The Heir thinks the government's case in the cannibal cop case is weakening, because the prosecutors are trying for shock value alone to try to get a conviction.  None of the evidence they presented is material to the specific charges.  But because the jury is made up of educated New Yorkers, they will vote to convict anyway to buttress their educated disapproval of the fetish concept, which they probably secretly believe only inarticulate yokels have.  They never learned in school what they saw at the trial after all, so once they convict, it will cast education in a dim light, reinforcing the notion that education is separate from common sense.