Returning to distinctions between monetary cases being tried and capital cases being tried — what is the procedure for handling new evidence? The mishnah here is contradicted by a mishnah in Bekhorot — where, here, in Sanhedrin, the case is retried, fundamentally, while in the other mishnah, the judge is responsible for the error. Why so? Also, reversing capital cases — in the event of conviction, but not acquittal (that judgement stands). With exploration of various potential reversals, using various verses to illustrate the viability or impossibility of following through on a reversed decision to convict. Plus, the Sadducees and when the need to overturn a case was obvious even to to this sect.

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