robert armstrong wrote:
> nathalie wooed:
>
>>> (JH) wrote: Most recent episode (reruns) the whole
>>> squad taken to the cleaners.
>
>> --- what episode are you talking about?
>
> If it's Luther Mahoney's release from custody the other day, don't make
> any long-term plans to help him celebrate: "pop" goes that weasel.
>
>>> The homicide suspect walks all because he made
>>> them look stupid.
>
>> ---well, such things happen,
>
> Now and then you have to root a little for the suspect: in a lot of
> these shows you never __really__ know if he or she is guilty anyway,
> you're just riding along on the cops' and prosecutors' conviction to
> convict.
>
> In the first seasons of the original Law & Order, Ben Stone (Michael
> Moriarty) seemed to develop some incredibly capricious excuses to
> indict: the one where the mother was mourning her daughter and Stone
> indicted her for murder because the daughter's death had to do with her
> involvement in ****, and the mother got her into ****, seemed especially
> convoluted. Stone's personality flaws made the show interesting, but it
> was refre****ng when now and then the jury put him back in his place.
>
> I don't think we're supposed to assume that convicting suspects is right
> just because the lead characters on the show want it that way.
>
> Bob A
>
> "Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
>
Oh gee, ya mean the cops don't always get it right? Gosh I hope H:LotS
deals with that somewhere along the line! a few times....
bob, i like you. you make me laugh. best regards, morph
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