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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-18 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:41:23 -0700
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On 4/19/24 11:13 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

> On Apr 19, 2024 at 8:45:39 AM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 4/19/2024 6:03 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>   Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> 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!!