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by Mischief Maker 09/04/2011, 11:01am PDT |
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Granted it was a latter-season episode after McCoy became the DA and they shrugged off any semblance of moral ambiguity. I immediately knew the IP was going to be evil once the IP lawyer acted all snotty to the ADA when they first met. Oh shit, was that episode a character assassination against the Innocence Project. The students were giving drug money to a junkie to act as a witness, the IP lawyer was using shit from the ADA's law school past against him. The "jump out of my chair to scream bullshit" part was near the end where the ADA gives the IP lawyer a steely glare and asks, "Do you really think he's innocent?" and she responds with embarrassed silence. That's the biggest question the Innocence Project asks before even taking on a case.
Stop me if I've mentioned this here before, but the most fascinating aspect of TV court shows for me is when a lawyer intentionally mentions something expressly forbidden in front of the jury, there's an objection, the lawyer smirks at the witness for several beats, then dismissively says, "withdrawn." If the bad guy lawyer does that, the intended response is, "ooh! That evil snaky lawyer, he's breaking the rules because he can't win the case on its own merits and now he's resorting to underhanded tactics!" BUT if the good guy lawyer does the exact same thing the response is, "Ha ha! Way to go, good guy lawyer! The rules won't allow him to win the case on its own merits, so now he's thinking outside the box for justice!" Even if both do it in the same episode!
That's what was so great about "My Cousin Vinny," every time he fucked around he was held in contempt of court. |
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What does MM think of Law & Order: SVU? NT by fabio 08/30/2011, 6:32am PDT 
I haven't watched any L&O since the episode they trashed the Innocence Project by Mischief Maker 09/04/2011, 11:01am PDT
I was hoping for more law school rape discussion stories by fabio 09/04/2011, 11:53am PDT
Re: I was hoping for more law school rape discussion stories by fabio 09/04/2011, 12:07pm PDT
The ADA was basically Jason Voorhees. by Mischief Maker 09/04/2011, 1:06pm PDT
The roofies didn't make her amorous, they made her barely conscious. by Jerry Whorebach 09/06/2011, 8:26am PDT
I should point out, I'm not calling fabio a rapist here. I'm just playing Ice-T NT by to his Richard Belzer. 09/06/2011, 8:42am PDT
Unless they were going with the unreliable narrator device by fabio 09/07/2011, 6:35am PDT
one way to make SVU fun by fabio 09/07/2011, 6:38am PDT
Re: one way to make SVU fun by laudablepuss 09/07/2011, 9:43am PDT
I figured Richard Belzair = SVU NT by fabio 09/07/2011, 10:28am PDT
I would watch SVU if it was Richard Belzer and Ice-T as main characters NT by WITTGENSTEIN 09/07/2011, 4:13pm PDT
What could be more profitable than an impossible-to-cure disease? by Mischief Maker 09/07/2011, 9:20am PDT
SVU was always the dumbest L&O, and for some reason also the highest-rated. by Jerry Whorebach 09/04/2011, 2:02pm PDT
Re: SVU was always the dumbest L&O, and for some reason also the highest-rated. by laudablepuss 09/05/2011, 10:58pm PDT
Do drunken hookups count as rape in Canadialand? NT by eh? 09/06/2011, 6:27am PDT
They technically do in the US too. NT by If consent can't be given it's rape 09/06/2011, 1:52pm PDT
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