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Sex Crimes Make for Good TV

By Corey Rayburnyung

It's seems as though Law & Order isn't the only TV show that uses stories "ripped from the headlines." As Dahlia Lithwick at Convictions notes, Boston Legal just broadcast its version of the Kennedy v. Louisiana case:Anyone happen to catch ABC?s Boston Legal last night? I?ve never watched the show, but somehow found myself gaping through an episode in which James Spader argues what turned out to be last week?s Louisiana capital rape case before an astoundingly good simulation of the current high court. They found actors who looked enough like the justices to be credible, Spader pretty much argued the brief in Kennedy, and the writers allowed an entire 15 minute segment just for his oral argument. I can?t recall another time I?ve seen anything as close to the real justices represented on prime time television, or a moment in which someone in the popular culture ? outside an op/ed -- really took on the Roberts Court as a collection of political actors rather than an abstract blur of black robe...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).