Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-18 (Thursday)

"Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 4/19/2024 6:03 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

 Another absolutely terrible episode of the new Law & Order. I don't know
 why the DVR won't let me cancel the recording of it. A celebrity chef gets
 murdered and they try the wrong guy and realize he must be innocent without
 having any idea who the real killer is so they tell the judge to cancel the
 trial and let the guy go and then as he's walking away, the DA has a
 literal lightbulb go off over his head, and suddenly knows for no possible
 reason they Told us who the real killer is and they arrest her. With no
 evidence at all. And it stops dead right there.
 

You liked the episode a lot more than I did!
I was about ready to throw something at the TV during the trial scene
when the defense had a monitor set up and proceeded to show images that
the DA had never seen before. So why exactly did the DA think there was
a TV in the court room for? Why didn't the DA object *before* he
started to show the images? And once the surprise pictures were shown,
why did the judge let them in? We just got the pictures last night is
not a reason!  And we just got them the night before doesn't mean the
pictures aren't fake!

>
You can't just show evidence to the jury that hasn't been authenticated,
accepted by the court, and marked and logged first. If you do something like
that, you'll trigger a mistrial and get yourself reported to the bar by the
judge for sanctions, and likely have to serve some type of contempt charge.
>
EVERYONE in court should have been asking what that TV was for since nothing
that could be shown on it had been introduced to the court as evidence. The
judge, the court clerk, the prosecutors... everyone.