Sonia's Hammered
jack
someone who give it to Stabler as good as he can give it, and it turns
out she's a drunk and her inebriated gets a man freed of homicide.
Too bad, they took the easy way out.
CF
was too "gutter, rough" and really rubbed Capt. Cragen the wrong way
over whether alcoholism is a disease or not! She is a self-hating drunk
herself! Strange that the defendant spoke up first saying she was
drunk! And, if she had been in a fender bender, then she was a hit and
run drunk!
Michael Ejercito
Michael
David / Amicus
in!
I wonder why they kept emphasizing that the victim was an abortion
doctor? It was not relevant to the crime.
Why double jeopardy? Why not simply call a mistrial?
David / Amicus
jeopardy attaching.>>
Thanks!
David Johnston
wrote:
>Again this would have been an ideal episode for Dr Huang to have been
>in!
>
>I wonder why they kept emphasizing that the victim was an abortion
>doctor? It was not relevant to the crime.
Because it was the episode's red herring.
>
>Why double jeopardy? Why not simply call a mistrial?
Because double jeopardy attaches in the case of mistrials due to
prosecutorial misconduct. Otherwise prosecutors could just throw the
trial into mistrial any time they were losing.
David / Amicus
episodes that could have used his expertise.
Yvonne Bowers
I know it's TV but IRL would the judge have questioned her and called
for the breathalyzer while court was in session in front the everyone or
would he have called for a recess to evaluate her condition?
--
YvonneinSonoma
David / Amicus
for the breathalyzer while court was in session in front the everyone or
would he have called for a recess to evaluate her condition?>>
At least he got the jury out.
Hunter
Ami...@webtv.net says...
> Again this would have been an ideal episode for Dr Huang to have been
> in!
>
> I wonder why they kept emphasizing that the victim was an abortion
---
It was a probable motive for the crime. The clinic she worked at was
a magnet for extreme Pro Life radicals and maybe the suspect was one
of them.
>
> Why double jeopardy? Why not simply call a mistrial?
Because there was the additional element of prosecutorial misconduct
that could be found in an investigation of actions. She had a video
computer animation with the suspects head made trying to pressure him
into a confession or at least a plea deal. That is probably
unethical. And then on top of it she "mistakenly" showed it in open
court to the jury. We know it was a genuine mistake given her
alcoholism but with her reputation for spitefulness and even
viciousness a lot of people could say and assume she did it
deliberately to violate the defendant's right to a fair trial. That
is prosecutorial misconduct and to penalize the state for it Judge
will cut the defendant free, just like when a cop who obtains
evidence illegally voiding the evidence that could had been crucial
to the defendant's conviction.
--
----->Hunter
"No man in the wrong can stand up against
a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."
-----William J. McDonald
Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907
Hunter
cf8e6b...@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, meje...@hotmail.com
says...
A determination of prosecutorial misconduct. Double jeopardy
attached.
It is the way to make the state stay on the straight and narrow and
to ensure a fair trial not railroad defendants even at the cost of
letting a few murders free.