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Unbelievably woke episode with an amazing defense. The writers are
doubling down on infuriating viewers.
Opening titles are a surprise. Tony Goldwyn is not yet in the cast.
Price is interim D.A. Despite the massive amount of paperwork he must
handle, he's still prosecuting cases.
They even film the walk down the hallway with the five actors!
Shaw finds some guy about to jump into the Hudson River and talks him
off. In an amazing coincidence he turns out to be the bad guy.
A black man's wife was experiencing a bad pregnancy and went into pre-eclampsia. She was taken to the hospital but the doctor failed to
make the right diagnosis. Remember: It's never lupus and it's always pre-eclampsia. She was sent home, got worse, then died returning to the hospital.
The husband returned to the hospital with a gun to kill the two doctors
who failed to treat her. He killed one of the doctors and seriously
wounded a nurse. He never found the other doctor. In a big manhunt, Shaw finds him and, once again, talks him out of suicide.
The hospital was totally uncooperative in providing security footage per HIPAA. But Maroun talks the judge into forcing the hospital to release
all exterior footage.
Shouldn't Maroun have filed her motion in federal court? State court
cannot pre-empt federal law.
The trial is one big STOOPID after another. Price uses the doctor's
widow as a witness; she has no evidence to offer. This allows the
defense to badger her about statistics concerning the terrible job white doctors do with black patients. How is this relevant to the case? How
can the doctor's widow possibly offer an opinion?
As usual, Price sits slack jawed and does not object.
In the middle of cross, defense changes plea to insanity! It's by reason
of racism! Price has never heard of this.
The defense has an expert witness! But of course.
Maroun is convinced that the defendent really is a victim, having
suffered through racism not seen since the Jim Crow south. Price buys
it. They offer a plea bargain; Price offers manslaughter with a 10 year sentence. This is a gift. The defense lawyer tells the client it's a
gift! But the client says "no", still believing that he can raise his
son after the trial.
You start to believe the guy is truly delusional.
Price supoena's a reluctant Shaw to testify that it was all
premeditated. The guy gets convicted.
This was unbelievable crap. Much of what the writers wanted to explore
would have been appropriate for a P.I. trial but it doesn't work in the context of a criminal trial. The dude wasn't temporarily insane due to
racism but because his wife was dead due to malpractice and he wanted
revenge REVENGE!
Shaw finds some guy about to jump into the Hudson River and talks him
off. In an amazing coincidence he turns out to be the bad guy.
A black man's wife was experiencing a bad pregnancy and went into pre-eclampsia. She was taken to the hospital but the doctor failed to
make the right diagnosis. Remember: It's never lupus and it's always pre-eclampsia. She was sent home, got worse, then died returning to the hospital.
The husband returned to the hospital with a gun to kill the two doctors
who failed to treat her. He killed one of the doctors and seriously
wounded a nurse. He never found the other doctor. In a big manhunt, Shaw finds him and, once again, talks him out of suicide.
The hospital was totally uncooperative in providing security footage per HIPAA.
The trial is one big STOOPID after another. Price uses the doctor's
widow as a witness; she has no evidence to offer.
In the middle of cross, defense changes plea to insanity! It's by reason
of racism! Price has never heard of this.
Maroun is convinced that the defendent really is a victim, having
suffered through racism not seen since the Jim Crow south. Price buys
it. They offer a plea bargain; Price offers manslaughter with a 10 year sentence. This is a gift. The defense lawyer tells the client it's a
gift! But the client says "no", still believing that he can raise his
son after the trial.
You start to believe the guy is truly delusional.
Price supoena's a reluctant Shaw to testify that it was all
premeditated. The guy gets convicted.
In article <urrvem$148df$1@dont-email.me>,
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
Shaw finds some guy about to jump into the Hudson River and talks him
off. In an amazing coincidence he turns out to be the bad guy.
And since when do cops or any government official just let a guy
experiencing suicidal ideation just walk off after they talk him down
because he says he's okay now?
Shaw should at least get a rip for not detaining the guy and having him checked out by qualified psychiatric professionals, which he, as a cop,
is not.
A black man's wife was experiencing a bad pregnancy and went into
pre-eclampsia. She was taken to the hospital but the doctor failed to
make the right diagnosis. Remember: It's never lupus and it's always
pre-eclampsia. She was sent home, got worse, then died returning to the
hospital.
The husband returned to the hospital with a gun to kill the two doctors
who failed to treat her. He killed one of the doctors and seriously
wounded a nurse. He never found the other doctor. In a big manhunt, Shaw
finds him and, once again, talks him out of suicide.
The hospital was totally uncooperative in providing security footage per
HIPAA.
Which was fucking ridiculous. HIPAA does not require things like
hospital security cam footage to be treated like Top Secret/SCI national security material. It prohibits it from being *publicly* released, but
no one would suggest the law would prohibit the police from viewing the footage in a murder investigation.
And if we take their claim as true for the sake of argument, why would
they even have security cameras in the ER in the first place if no one's
ever allowed to look at the footage in response to a security incident? Wouldn't the existence of the cameras *themselves* be a HIPAA violation?
The trial is one big STOOPID after another. Price uses the doctor's
widow as a witness; she has no evidence to offer.
Yes! I was shouting at the TV, "Why is she on the stand? She wasn't
there when the crime happened." She literally has no relevant testimony.
All she did was answer questions about how wonderful the victim was as a father, which is not evidence. And the defense didn't even give the
judge the opportunity to make a ridiculous ruling contrary to law by objecting.
In the middle of cross, defense changes plea to insanity! It's by reason
of racism! Price has never heard of this.
No one has. (Except Hollywood TV writers. I miss Hunter and his
never-ending defense of the Hollywood writer. I think maybe the quality
of the writing dipped so badly that he stroked out trying to defend them
and had to retire from Usenet.)
Maroun is convinced that the defendent really is a victim, having
suffered through racism not seen since the Jim Crow south. Price buys
it. They offer a plea bargain; Price offers manslaughter with a 10 year
sentence. This is a gift. The defense lawyer tells the client it's a
gift! But the client says "no", still believing that he can raise his
son after the trial.
You start to believe the guy is truly delusional.
Price supoena's a reluctant Shaw to testify that it was all
premeditated. The guy gets convicted.
Not only does he get convicted but the entire tone of the show, from the expressions and body language of all the main characters, was intended
to send the message that, yes, despite everything, a black man like this
will be imprisoned in racist America. Despite the fact that he committed
a premeditated cold-blooded murder, the show's message was, "Feel sorry
for him, he's the real victim here. Because racism."
And if we take their claim as true for the sake of argument, why would
they even have security cameras in the ER in the first place if no one's
ever allowed to look at the footage in response to a security incident? >Wouldn't the existence of the cameras *themselves* be a HIPAA violation?
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