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Law and Order Trial By Jury

I don't think I should watch court TV shows ever again. LOTBJ is a terrible show regarding legal ethics! From this first episode I watched, the defense attorney contrives a legal defense by treating his clients like idiots to be led around into unethical /perjurious behavior. The defense is all about suborning perjury! The insanity defense he contrives is so half-baked, and anyway, these rarely work. And the perjury that is suborns is not even effective because the attorney cannot properly direct his own hostile witness (the mother of his client, a woman who pays the client's bills).The prosecutor is just as bad. When the prosecution has gets an expert that gives her the wrong opinion, she tries to hide her and then gets upset when the defense uses the expert...continue to full post

Full post as published by Defending Those People on January 14, 2006 (boomark / email).