submitted by Sheitstrom to tv1.2 yearsFeb 11, 2023 06:25:29 ago (+1/-0) (tv)
Watched an old TV show on streaming. I grew up watching Dennis Farina on Law and Order (yes I know it is shit) so I decided to watch Crime Story.
Crime Story from 1986 (87?) season 1 episode 6.
A court-appointed defense attorney represents a black man who lives in a cheap apartment. The defendant hit a landlord for being mean and the lawyer uses deception and trickery to get his client off using literally word-for-word modern Antifa arguments and circuitous logic.
It literally felt like it was written in 2023, complete with contradictions (the law applies equally but it's okay to beat a landlord for saying mean things), basic misunderstanding of the law and justice, and preaching to essentially disregard law instead of changing it. It was terrifying in its tone deaf nature, and it even proved, at the end, why the man should have gone to jail for assault.
The culture of writers is that of insular stupidity, and it appears to have been that way for a long time.
Perhaps he got off on the grounds of "fighting words". Where it's legally permissible to assault someone if it's within reasonable limits and they were provoking you to violence.
I would have loved if they used that argument - that's something you can convince a jury to believe. The attorney just used sophistry in my opinion. In the end the defendant was evicted and accidently punched the landlord - killing him, after the landlord pushed the defendant's wife in a struggle. That part was realistic. Still other episodes are quite watchable.
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