You know fandom, or at least TV, has eaten your brain when you're watching CNN and some guy from NCIS -- the real one -- is doing a news conference on a missing Marine . . . and you find yourself wondering where Gibbs is.
A while back I read an article about prosecutors getting annoyed with CSI and the other procedural shows. Apparently jurors now expect things to be all clear-cut like they are on the shows, and they decide it's reasonable doubt if the evidence isn't as damning as it is on TV. I can just see some juror saying, "Well, on NCIS, Ducky ALWAYS can determine such-and-such, so the medical examiner in this case must really be a loser since he claims we can't know for sure if the victim was poisoned! Let's vote 'not guilty' and get the hell outta here!" I can see how a real prosecutor would be foaming at the mouth over that sort of thing.
*grin* My sister the lawyer (who once interned in the D.A.'s office) once started foaming at the mouth when she saw an ADA on Law and Order bring a 27-page brief to an arraignment hearing! I had to admit, as someone who once covered the courts, I laughed at the lunacy of that one, too.
TV isn't exactly renowned for its accuracy...if it were, a doctor like House would have had his license revoked about 30 times over by this point. And then what would I watch after NCIS?
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A while back I read an article about prosecutors getting annoyed with CSI and the other procedural shows. Apparently jurors now expect things to be all clear-cut like they are on the shows, and they decide it's reasonable doubt if the evidence isn't as damning as it is on TV. I can just see some juror saying, "Well, on NCIS, Ducky ALWAYS can determine such-and-such, so the medical examiner in this case must really be a loser since he claims we can't know for sure if the victim was poisoned! Let's vote 'not guilty' and get the hell outta here!" I can see how a real prosecutor would be foaming at the mouth over that sort of thing.
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TV isn't exactly renowned for its accuracy...if it were, a doctor like House would have had his license revoked about 30 times over by this point. And then what would I watch after NCIS?
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