All Trig can think about is what he’s lost, what he did, and the amends he must make.
-- Narrator (Trig paragraph N/A)

Importance: At the outset of the novel, the reader does not know who Trig is and how he is related to the Duffrey trial. As the novel develops, the reader learns that what Trig lost is his mother, what he did is convince other jurors to convict Duffrey, and the amends he must make are to make the jurors experience guilt as he kills innocent people to avenge the death of Duffrey in prison.

Better for ten guilty men to go free rather than for one innocent man to suffer.
-- Izzy (Chapter 1 paragraph N/A)

Importance: Here Izzy explains what the Blackstone Rule means. It is a principle of the justice system that demonstrates the importance of not imprisoning innocent people. It is this rule that Trig bases his philosophy off of. His philosophy is a perversion of...