Look at it from Dallas's point of view. She's an academic and has spent her career researching stuff. Is she supposed to turn her inquisitiveness and intellectual skill set off just because some knuckle-dragging bully of a judge tells her to? If it seemed obvious to her that there was more to the story than the jury had been fed, of course she'd ask what it was. If the trial system only wants forelock-tugging dimwits as jurors, maybe they better spell that out in law.

Meanwhile they've imposed a brutally over the top punishment and wrecked her career for fouling their procedural offside rule. They're bunch of thugs that would disgrace the Middle Ages.