text: Jurors are kept off-balance--and in need of additional guidance from the bench--by the judge , who instructs them to convict if the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt , without telling them whether a reasonable doubt consists of a 1 percent risk of error , a 5 percent risk of error , or a 10 percent risk of error .
  
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  The judge is impatient with the jurors ' ignorance .