Of course the state is shown to win at least 9/10 times and as justified probably 11/12 of the times it wins but when have you disagreed?
Off the top of my head I think the defense attorney at least introduced reasonable doubt in the episodes Rage and Hot Pursuit.
Two episodes I can think of right away had some twisted endings where Jack won but he could have lost.
In Double Down, a terrific episode, Jack tells Rey to shut up while Jack was in a hearing because he didn't want Rey to tell him something which could hurt him later on - that Henry Harp's accomplice had been found dead, presumably killed by Harp who was involved in the killing of an off-duty cop and a livery cab driver. Jack is able to use his "ignorance" to nullify the plea deal he made with Harp and prosecute him further for his crimes. Rey had to testify as a defense witness but withheld that Jack had told him to shut up. Jack really should have lost in the hearing and been forced to adhere to the deal even though I was delighted he outmaneuvered the crafty Harp.
In Stalked, a woman throws herself down a flight of stairs and claims her stalker did it, trying to set him up for assault. The cops figure out she made it up but her actual stalker finds her and kills her. After Lennie basically perjures himself saying he now believed her in an effort to repair his conscience for not believing she was being stalked, Jack decides to prosecute her stalker for the original "faked" assault. Rey in this case also testifies for the defense, opposing Lennie (just like in Double Down) and Jack hangs Rey out to dry on cross. Unable to get a conviction on the stalker's murder because the victim undercut her own credibility, Jack gets a conviction of him on the faked assault.
In Stalked, the defendant was found guilty both on the murder and assault charges. And we don't know for sure the truth about the first assault, whether it was faked or if the defendant did it.
And yeah McCoy got lucky in Double Down.
Both cases showed the extensive hypocrisy of the sanctimonious, preachy, hypocrite scumbag Curtis, I really hated that character.
Perfect description of Curtis. And I personally think she staged the first assault in Stalked, mostly because of the garbage bag lie.
shareI disagree about Rage and Hot Pursuit. In both cases I was glad the prosecution won and I thought the jury got the right verdict, and that the prosecution put on a better case.
One that the state should've lost was Release, I hated McCoy in that episode and the defendant was convicted because he was sleazy, not because he was guilty.
I agree with you on those examples; re: Stalker, I always thought that because the couple who found the victim at the bottom of the stairs got there so quickly after it happened (a few seconds) and we/they didn't hear or see anyone running away (or any noise other than from the victim before it), we were supposed to believe that the attack was in fact faked.
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About Stalker, it was never spefically clear as to whether the first attack was faked or not. There was evidence for both theories.
I was agreeing with you. Anyway, my point was simply that I believe we the viewer were at least supposed to suspect the attack was faked. They could have just had someone find her at the bottom of the stairs if they wanted it to be more ambiguous. Instead they had us hearing her fall, a couple of seconds later she's found, no other sounds, no one running away.
shareThe Hot Pursuit outcome makes me upset every time I watch it. She was so intent on rebelling she didn't care about the her sentence. She cut off her nose to spite her face. Love Amanda Peet, though.
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