"I feel obliged to say that we have free willy."

I feel obliged not to dive into that rabbit hole less than a week into the close season.

It's much preferable to concentrate upon "In a legal court case if there is insufficient evidence to produce a conviction then a 'not guilty' verdict must be given."

Have we really heard the prosecution's case in this instance? We need Elon Musk to appear asking if we remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the mid-80s or Sinbad playing a genie in the movie "Shazam".

Anyway, the prosecution would probably present the "twin slit / double slit" experiment. As you probably already know, this demonstrates light and matter can act as both waves and particles, in other words wave-particle duality. This phenomenon is impossible to explain in any classical way as with the very act of watching the observer affects the observed reality.

When the observer watches the matter acts as particles and not as waves and the more they watch the more this behaviour increases. Why would this occur? If you were designing a computer simulation of a universe you would be constrained by the limits of resources in the universe in which you were simulating. It would be impossible to simulate the behaviour of every single particle, so it stands to logic / reason you would only simulate the particle interactions which were observed and save a ton of energy by working the rest out using probability. Quantum mechanics is consistent with the flaws you would expect to see in a programme which minimizes processing costs by simulating physical events only when their outcome is relevant and winging it for the rest of the time.

Any counter to this argument for the defence of reality?