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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-18 (Thursday)
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atropos@mac.com wrote:
> "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.

Obviously, they were going to play movies during the trial intermissions.

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Let's go Brandon!