Most violent crimes are committed by teenage girls and wealthy socialites (but we already knew that didn’t we?) 
The white guy did it.
Regards,
Shodan
The early episodes teach us that whenever you arrest/indict a black guy, you need to be concerned about riots “uptown”. Even though the riots never happen.
If you’re one of the first people being interrogated by Lenny and Green, don’t worry. A few minutes into it, Van Buren will come in and tell the detectives to let you go.
If you kill someone but they can’t charge you for lack of evidence, McCoy’s going to go after your bank or HMO.
If you’ve just been hired as the assistant DA under Jack McCoy, be glad. It means you’re amazingly attractive.
Oh yeah…if you’re a woman and they bring you in for questioning, expect Van Buren to come in and have a tender heart-to-heart, like she’s your pal. Expect to then burst into tears and confess all your sins.
Marvel writes:
> Lawyers will quietly sit/stand by while the chubby guy from “Full Metal Jacket”
> verbally and even physically messes with their client in the interogation room.
Well, of course. When the client says, “Hey, why aren’t you objecting to that detective who keeps badgering me?”, the lawyer says, “Don’t you recognize him? That’s Vincent D’Onofrio from Full Metal Jacket. Tick him off and he’ll kill us both before killing himself.” But didn’t any of those lawyers watch the movie The Whole Wide World? All you have to do is hire Renee Zellweger as your lawyer. She’ll flirt with D’Onofrio and tell him she’s sorry to hear about his mother’s death. Then D’Onofrio will kill himself without having to kill somebody else first.
Red helmet? Is that like a red flag?
Or a red herring? :dubious:
An early McCoy episode revolved around a medical clinic for autistic children. One of the teenaged patients escaped and was picked up for odd behaviour, subsequently dying in police custody (Logan had grabbed the kid to restrain him after he went berserk, so there was the hint of a brutality charge). Autopsy showed the kid died from a blood clot from a neck injury suffered some hours earlier.
It turns out at this clinic, the head doctor had experimenting with radical aversion therapy, which included locking a red helmet onto the patient to block all vision and hearing for days at a time. He’d been forbidden to use the device by court order some years earlier, after a patient’s family had complained of injuries.
The critical clue came when the mother of a third patient happened to let it slip that the victim had only worn the white helmet (a standard hockey helmet used to prevent hand-banging injuries), not the red. Since the D.A.'s had never told her the colour, they concluded that not only was the Doctor back in the red-helmet business (and she had witnessed its use), but that it was the likely cause of the victim’s fatal injury.
Hey, what was the name of that episode? (never saw it but it sounds like a good one-and it has Logan! Yay!)
Is everyone watching the Marathon tomorrow on TNT?
Okay…
If a handicapped child dies, it’s never of natural causes. The parent either euthanized the child, or had a doctor do it.
Don’t bother using the insanity defense. No one ever does. Even if you’re crazier than an outhouse rat. In that case, of course, sometime during the trial, you will go berserk and end up institutionalized anyways.
(BTW, is it true Michael Moriaty is a total asshole?)
I think he’s not so much an asshole as a world-class flake.
Your lawyer can ask any questions they want, provided they withdraw it before the judge can rule on an objection from opposing counsel.
His demeanor during the bonus short on the L&O: Season 2 DVD bears this out.
I don’t have the unauthorized L&O guide with me, but, if I recall correctly, he’s suffered from both mental illness and alcoholism.
The episode is “Cruel and Unusual”.
It’s actually on TNT today (5/31) at 1pm eastern.
Things I’ve learned from L&O:
Beltran is an Hispanic last name.
Most Japanese characters have the last name Hayashi.
Some one on the writing staff has a wristwatch fetish.
The District Attorney will always be eating a sandwich.
I watch way too much L&O.
The detectives, if they think they’ll want to talk to you later, can tell you, “Oh, by the way, don’t leave town.”
You mean it’s not? Are you sure?
I meant I didn’t know that Beltran is an Hispanic name.
There was an episode with a guy named Beltran from Mexico.
When giving a name verbally to any government employee, they will immediately know how to spell it and bring up the information you need on the computer screen.
Talking of computers, it is apparently possible for a technician to take ordinary hi-8 video footage and enlarge it to reveal incredibly minute details with perfect sharpness.