Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-18 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:41:23 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <401471085.735224292.555876.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:41:24 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="186d03eeccf7d18843316f4d3db77697"; logging-data="3300364"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+H4pTDb5wwsHUtRlstdxsD" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:0q2cLQ2dwaG7v2SzSgWylcah4V4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3527 On 4/19/24 11:13 AM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Apr 19, 2024 at 8:45:39 AM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb" > wrote: >> On 4/19/2024 6:03 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>> Ian J. Ball wrote: >>>> On 4/19/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: >>>> >>>>> What did you watch? >>>> >>>> Soaps, and a Lifetime flick: >>>> >>>> >>>> What did you watch? >>> >>> Hey, thanks for asking! >>> >>> 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. Wow - this sounds like Days of Our Lives/General Hospital-level of televised courtroom inaccuracy!!