04-01-2016, 01:05 AM
I watched the first episode, and it is interesting and well done enough to warrant more. However, I have neither the time (nor the attention span) to "binge watch" anything.
That being said, I've had clients in whom law enforcement has taken an unusual interest. Once, as in here, the victim was a relative of a cop. Sometimes the client "cops an attitude" with the wrong officer. Sometimes its about personality differences between lawyers. Sometimes clients get found not guilty, or get less harsh sentences, than prosecutors and detectives think they deserve. (Maybe that happens more than "sometimes".) Sometimes those situations result in subsequent overzealous investigations and prosecutions. That usually doesn't end well. For anyone.
Look at the Michael Morton case. After more than a decade in prison for a murder Morton didn't commit, the overzealous prosecutor (Anderson) gets removed from the district judge job that case led him to, and goes to jail (for 5 days?!?), and the next prosecutor (Bradley) that tried to fight Morton's release winds up losing his job, facing ethics charges of his own, and eventually has to move to the Republic of Palau to find a job. Should be an object lesson to more prosecutors, but most of them have that "couldn't happen to me" attitude about it. Of course, m[B]ost [/B]prosecutors I know wouldn't act unethically.
I'm looking forward to the next episode.
That being said, I've had clients in whom law enforcement has taken an unusual interest. Once, as in here, the victim was a relative of a cop. Sometimes the client "cops an attitude" with the wrong officer. Sometimes its about personality differences between lawyers. Sometimes clients get found not guilty, or get less harsh sentences, than prosecutors and detectives think they deserve. (Maybe that happens more than "sometimes".) Sometimes those situations result in subsequent overzealous investigations and prosecutions. That usually doesn't end well. For anyone.
Look at the Michael Morton case. After more than a decade in prison for a murder Morton didn't commit, the overzealous prosecutor (Anderson) gets removed from the district judge job that case led him to, and goes to jail (for 5 days?!?), and the next prosecutor (Bradley) that tried to fight Morton's release winds up losing his job, facing ethics charges of his own, and eventually has to move to the Republic of Palau to find a job. Should be an object lesson to more prosecutors, but most of them have that "couldn't happen to me" attitude about it. Of course, m[B]ost [/B]prosecutors I know wouldn't act unethically.
I'm looking forward to the next episode.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."