The Law on TV

When people find out what I do for a living, I usually get two questions. The first, of course, is "How can you do that". The second is "Do you watch those law shows on TV?" The media has gone a long way to ruin the justice system for everyone, defendants, jurors, witnesses and victims. Everyone expects a case to be resolved in 60 minutes. Defendants expect their counsel to do as the ones on television (i.e. accuse the judge of illegal and unethical behavior and still go home at the end of the day).

Something is very wrong when someone like Nancy Grace is the source of information for legal matters to the general public. This is a woman who has been reprimanded by both the 11th Circuit and the Supreme Court of Georgia for unethical behavior and, among other things, presenting testimony to the court which she knew to be false. How this woman hasn't been disbarred is beyond me. Now she is a celebrity. Just goes to show that often in this country, intelligence and integrity are not as important as luck. Sad indeed.