I know that, I'm just saying that if you can "put pressure on the judiciary" (which is a ridiculous statement in most western countries but especially France) to find someone not guilty, you can certainly do it to find them guilty.

The information the jury hears in the US in criminal cases, especially high profile ones, is extremely tightly controlled. They're not in the room when lawyers are making evidentiary arguments to include or exclude evidence. I've served on a couple juries and the most high-stakes one carried potentially decades of jail time for the defendant. We were shuffled in and out of that room dozens of times each day for lawyers to make arguments about what we could or could not hear. Several of our questions during deliberation were answered with a section of the transcript and nothing more.

Juries are wrong all the time.

Just so it’s clear, jury trials in France are limited to criminal cases. The trial considered here is a civil law one. No jury was involved.