And you certainly don’t go to the Cayman Islands while you’re studying for the bar - at least if you plan on passing.”
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Times back when the movie came out: “When you are in bar preparation mode, you can’t function on any other level. Only, all of that is laughed at by actual lawyers, who told the L.A. The judge needs time to decide whether it’s permissible or not, and modern discovery policies hold that prosecutors can’t swing around new evidence in court without the defense knowing about it first. Sure, there is room for discovery, but it’s not thrown at the court during a cross-examination like a magician pulling a rabbit from his butt.
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Only, the use of DNA during a trial needs to be noted during the pre-trial period, and pulling such a stunt would most certainly result in a mistrial. In Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, a reporter frames himself for a murder simply to oust Michael Douglas as a corrupt DA who enjoys coming up with last-minute evidence in the form of DNA … that he himself plants everywhere. Returning to those courtroom shenanigans (we could arguably write an entire article on that alone), movies and shows often portray defense lawyers duping the prosecution (or the other way around) by magically conjuring some newly-found yet damning evidence. According to Devin Stone, a trial lawyer who specializes in all aspects of civil litigation, this will definitely get a guy tackled (or at least reprimanded).Ģ Evidence Can't Just Be Introduced Mid-Trial In Better Call Saul’s very first episode, we see Jimmy McGill bursting into the courtroom after giving himself a pep talk in the bathroom (apparently trial lawyers often practice in the bathroom like that), and he enters the well - the space between the council table and the bench - without any verbal permission to immediately address the courtroom. Only in real life, many movie shenanigans will get a person either thrown out or, at the very least, tackled by the bailiff.
So yes, a lawyer pretending they’re the ringmaster of a courtroom is played for spectacle.
Right, it’s a movie, or a show, and writers and directors want to focus on the drama, up the stakes, and make it a spectacle so that we the viewers won’t flip the channel (or, in modern times, just fall asleep until the streamer asks us if we’re still watching). 4 Let’s Get The Courtroom Dramatics Out Of The Way
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