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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 404118" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>I like Kathy Bates (one of my all-time favorite movie scenes and quotes is the parking lot scene from Fried Green Tomatoes) and I watched the show with great interest. However, as a trial attorney myself, I found the courtroom scenes contrived and unrealistic. If any attorney I ever knew, myself included, conducted ourselves with as much disrespect for the court and opposing counsel as she did, if we ever blurred the lines between what is permissible to say and argument for the sake of drawing a mistrial, we would be in custody for contempt of court and I don't even do criminal work! I also had very mixed feelings about the outcome of the trial - jury nullification (the practice of pandering to jurors' fears and feelings so that they will decide a case based on emotions and not on the law) is wrong and that's what she was doing. The woman committed an armed robbery and Kathy Bates told her to jump bail and flee during her trial - that's illegal and any attorney who does that should be disbarred. It makes interesting TV but it's not the real world. It also makes my job as a trial attorney more diffcult because people come to jury service with these totally wrong pre-conceived notions, mostly that a trial will be over in the time it takes one episode of a show to run.</p><p></p><p>I'll probably still watch it, because I do like KB so much and it's a treat to see her on TV, but if you listen hard, you'll hear me screaming at the screen during the trial scenes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 404118, member: 3493"] I like Kathy Bates (one of my all-time favorite movie scenes and quotes is the parking lot scene from Fried Green Tomatoes) and I watched the show with great interest. However, as a trial attorney myself, I found the courtroom scenes contrived and unrealistic. If any attorney I ever knew, myself included, conducted ourselves with as much disrespect for the court and opposing counsel as she did, if we ever blurred the lines between what is permissible to say and argument for the sake of drawing a mistrial, we would be in custody for contempt of court and I don't even do criminal work! I also had very mixed feelings about the outcome of the trial - jury nullification (the practice of pandering to jurors' fears and feelings so that they will decide a case based on emotions and not on the law) is wrong and that's what she was doing. The woman committed an armed robbery and Kathy Bates told her to jump bail and flee during her trial - that's illegal and any attorney who does that should be disbarred. It makes interesting TV but it's not the real world. It also makes my job as a trial attorney more diffcult because people come to jury service with these totally wrong pre-conceived notions, mostly that a trial will be over in the time it takes one episode of a show to run. I'll probably still watch it, because I do like KB so much and it's a treat to see her on TV, but if you listen hard, you'll hear me screaming at the screen during the trial scenes. [/QUOTE]
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