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People on Twitter (or I guess it’s called X) are obsessed with Mariska/Benson, praising her all over. It’s so weird.

I think they did say they had footage of the BMW leaving the scene from a camera on another building.

Yes, it’s pretty standard evidence, and eyewitness testimony is actually direct evidence, not circumstantial. But, I definitely agree that Price should have been much more skeptical of the eyewitness because of the fact he didn’t mention the defendant the night of the murder. I thought the pre-trial motion (trying to exclude the ID) was handled well. Price was exactly right that the jury is who should decide whether the ID is reliable.

I thought it was a good episode but I literally laughed out loud when the victim’s name was written on the test tube. These guys are supposed to be geniuses?

It doesn’t make sense that the defense would try to impeach a witness with an affair when that witness was obviously trying to lie on behalf of her client. Why would she want to prove the guy who said the defendant was a victim of a politically motivated prosecution was lying? That would have been her original plan but she would have pivoted when she heard his testimony. I realize it was a plot device for the mayor storyline, but it was poorly done. Nice send off for Jack though! A true legend!

It’s not just you. Olivia is a hypocritical pick me. Taylor also sucks, and it’s completely possible to not like either one of them.

The thing Ariana said that seemed so over the top to me is that Raquel and Tom are the most evil people in the world. But, like, people are out there abusing and murdering children every day, as just one example of more evil behavior. It just took some credibility away from her.

Were they trying to recreate the ER storyline where Carol Hathaway leaves Cook County General to move to Seattle to be with Doug Ross? If so, then … LOL.

I don’t think she is but the show thinks that because she’s not rail thin, they have to dress her in tents. I feel like she would look much better without clothes that are too big for her with heavy jackets or sweaters over them.

Only on TV would an OB be administrating ECT.

I’ve never been a firefighter but I’ve represented fire departments in employment matters, and that whole thing was absolutely baffling. People can call in sick. It’s not a big deal, and their supervisors should leave them alone. It’s not like he didn’t let anyone know. And that conversation between Kidd and Severide about how his guys only call in sick if they’re dying was bizarre too.

Me too! It wasn’t just you. I loved that!

I don’t think the suicide of a witness is grounds for appeal. I don’t even know how that evidence could get in since it’s not in the record, and if it did I don’t see how you can impeach with after-the-fact conduct that is not related to the crime (versus finding out, maybe, that the witness had an axe to grind). And, dying by suicide doesn’t necessarily mean the witness is mentally ill, nor that he’s incapable of testifying accurately. Those are fact questions for a jury, anyway, and not the kind of thing an appeals court should be reviewing for. If there were some other grounds for appeal and the defendant were granted a new trial, the key witness being dead could be a problem, though it could get in under some hearsay exception maybe. But it’s not, itself, grounds for appeal, I don’t think. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the point, though.

Thank you! I had the same question the whole time, and I’m a lawyer (though not a litigator)! It could maybe be used to attack the credibility of the pastor who recanted, but it couldn’t be used to prove Pastor Mike did anything. (I realize I’m super late to this.) Edit: I thought back to Evidence class and while it’s hearsay, I believe it’s subject to an exception as a statement against self-interest. I looked it up, and I believe this would be the rule in NY. Probably too complicated to add that to the story along with breaking the privilege.

If judges allowed defendants to represent themselves and then let them walk all over the process as a result, they would all represent themselves. I’m a civil attorney, not a criminal one, but I found this totally unrealistic. I also knew Mark Feuerstein was the baddie as soon as I saw him.