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"Shows Promise"

This post was written by Mark Bennett: "Texas criminal defense lawyers of old could talk to their jury panels about the Bible, and safely assume that they were talking about a common cultural framework. Modern culture is electronic, and much more ephemeral. It's harder for a lawyer to find a cultural hook that catches most of the jury panel.

Once upon a time there was Murder One, but realistic TV dramas with innocent defendants have been thin on the ground lately. The problem with the government getting it right all the time on TV (well, one of the problems) is that the people who watch TV get conditioned to assume that the government gets it right all the time in real life..."

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Source: Defending People, 4 June 2010. © 2010 Defending People, reproduced with permission of the author

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).