Not a bad first season. Not great. They used real locations for the most part, but the interiors of the criminal courthouse actually were shot in the civil courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.
Wasn’t real impressed with the acting, from the lead on down. As a lawyer, the idea of being able to bribe a juror before the jury is selected is so divorced from reality as to be incomprehensible. In California, when you receive a jury summons, it is for a week and not a day. On Sunday night, you call in to see if you are required to report on Monday. If you aren’t, you call Monday night to see if you have to report on Tuesday, etc. So, the actual jury pool for a trial starting in a Wednesday with jury selection wouldn’t be known until Tuesday night after 5:00 p.m.
Attorneys aren’t exempt from jury duty, and I’ve probably gotten a dozen summonses. Each time I actually had to appear (3) was to report to a different courthouse. Santa Monica civil; Downtown civil; and Downtown criminal. Only got impaneled once for voir dire and never was chosen. On the one panel I was selected for, the judge asked if any of us knew any of the parties or attorneys. It happened to be a civil malpractice claim against a family lawyer and I knew him. I was excused, rightfully, because I would have assumed he had committed malpractice. He was a terrible lawyer.
The Presiding Judge has zero to do with jury summonses going out or jury selection so that was wholly unrealistic too. But, an unexpected nice touch in the plot.
Neve Campbell has aged well, but will never look as good as she did in Wild Things in the pool with Denise Richards.
Does every child of every character on every TV show have to play youth soccer?
Wasn’t real impressed with the acting, from the lead on down. As a lawyer, the idea of being able to bribe a juror before the jury is selected is so divorced from reality as to be incomprehensible. In California, when you receive a jury summons, it is for a week and not a day. On Sunday night, you call in to see if you are required to report on Monday. If you aren’t, you call Monday night to see if you have to report on Tuesday, etc. So, the actual jury pool for a trial starting in a Wednesday with jury selection wouldn’t be known until Tuesday night after 5:00 p.m.
Attorneys aren’t exempt from jury duty, and I’ve probably gotten a dozen summonses. Each time I actually had to appear (3) was to report to a different courthouse. Santa Monica civil; Downtown civil; and Downtown criminal. Only got impaneled once for voir dire and never was chosen. On the one panel I was selected for, the judge asked if any of us knew any of the parties or attorneys. It happened to be a civil malpractice claim against a family lawyer and I knew him. I was excused, rightfully, because I would have assumed he had committed malpractice. He was a terrible lawyer.
The Presiding Judge has zero to do with jury summonses going out or jury selection so that was wholly unrealistic too. But, an unexpected nice touch in the plot.
Neve Campbell has aged well, but will never look as good as she did in Wild Things in the pool with Denise Richards.
Does every child of every character on every TV show have to play youth soccer?
