Re: Law & Order "Duty to Protect" 2/13/2025 (spoilers)

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Feb 13, 2025 at 11:44:38 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

. . .

They find a credit card receipt from the stepfather, breaking his
alibi. But they can't find motive till a video the victim shot in which
she accuses her stepfather of raping her repeated at age 14.

The video hadn't been made public yet.

And Price showed it during his opening argument! You can't present evidence to
the jury during opening arguments, for the love of gawd!

That was his opening? I guess it was. We never saw a detective on the
stand used to introduce the video evidence into the record.

Upon seeing Marvel, Mauroon gets uber-sympathetic to the defendant.

I think you're confusing the defense attorney actress with someone else. She
was played by Elsa Davis and Marvel is listed nowhere in the rest of the cast
for the episode.

That was the lead defense attorney. There was a second attorney who
approached Mauroon although we never saw her in court, the one hired to
investigate the defendant's background to prove she was a "victim".

That was a different woman. If I'm wrong about Marvel (who prepares
defense cases like that on SVU), I don't know who it was.

The defense wants to put a psychiatrist on the stand to argue the
defendant's state of mind which Price objects to as state of mind is
irrelevant to the crimes she's charged with.

Astoundingly, the judge actually rules in the prosecution's favor, something
the Judicial Ethics Committee will probably sanction her for. LAW & ORDER
judges are ethically required to overrule all prosecution objections and allow
whatever crazy nonsense the defense attorneys think up.

Hehehehehe