Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Stupid tv I'm watching Law & Order "Castle in the Sky" 5/2/2024 (spoilers) Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 20:54:09 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <561524913.736418250.597843.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Injection-Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 22:54:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="545622967c631d88f79fa21cf97c4e8f"; logging-data="2926256"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+gEpfDPw/uhnEQYXwZDKCOWqIFX5jP/a4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:PCPTrm6bAduwt0c1D158t7TSId4= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3199 BTR1701 wrote: >anim8rfsk wrote: >>Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>>. . . >>>Price argues that case law about privacy in a homeless >>NOTE: they don't use the word homeless anymore. All the way through the >>show they continued to use the new term "unhoused" >In L.A., you can't even say that. All the government officials and their >media stenographers use the phrase "people experiencing homelessness" >because (they say) the emphasis must be on the fact that they are people >first and that homelessness isn't their defining trait. Everything is >"people experiencing X" now. I'm a person experiencing a person who hasn't showered nor laundered his clothing in months when I encounter them on the "L". >You're not a drug addict, you're a person experiencing drug addiction. It's not a lifestyle choice either. Evil drugs forced their way into your bloodstream. >You're not a convicted felon, you're a person who has experienced >incarceration. Haven't you heard justice-system related? I can't tell if the dude is the court clerk or a felon out of prison and now on parole. >You're not an illegal alien, you're a person who is not yet an American >citizen. > >>>. . . >>>What will Dixon do? She waits till the very last moment, just before >>>Price enters the conference room at his own office to offer the plea >>>bargain to the defense. Price tells the defense he won't offer the plea >>>after all. Price puts Dixon on the stand to rebut the girl's testimony. >>Why isn't all of this heresay? She "overheard" the little girl signing >>to her son at a distance, and only caught a couple of keywords and >>bullied the son and the deaf daughter into telling her a story and >>then she's allowed to testify to it in court? >It would typically be hearsay and the defendant's lawyer objected to >just that but it was overruled because Price rightly pointed out that it >was a statement against penal interest and therefore the hearsay rule >didn't apply. It must make you do a double take that the script got something right about trial procedure.