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...CRIME AND PUNISHMENT The vast majority of Miers' corporate cases were resolved without litigation, so she has rarely seen the inside of a courtroom. She has expressed strong opinions, though, about the justice system, advocating the expansion of free legal aid and encouraging lawyers to do more pro bono work. In a 1993 A.B.A. Journal article, she called for more funding for the defense of death-row prisoners in Texas. Miers also served on the board of Exodus Ministries, a Christian group that helps former prisoners adjust to life outside prison...
...away for 20 years. And the show suffers from a common failing of crime dramas about lawyers: it needs Chase not just to prosecute crimes--boring!--but also to solve them. I suspect that the show will go into ever less plausible contortions to take her out of the courtroom and into crime scenes. But it may be that viewers will not care. It's a big, spooky country, and Bruckheimer knows far better than I how many people out there are ready to put the kids to bed; flip on the baby monitor, motion-sensitive lights and alarm system...
...very focused and very pointed. You don't do close-ups onstage." True, but with the cameras right in their faces, it's more obvious than ever how much fun Broderick and Lane are having. You can actually see the glances zapping back and forth in the climactic courtroom scene, and when Lane, in a moment of Brooksian metazaniness, compliments Broderick on his singing, you can sense them both, after however many hundreds of performances, desperately trying not to crack up. Like all the classic comedy duos, they draw energy from each other, forming a feedback loop that spins faster...
...extraordinary courtroom proceeding, a St. Croix County judge found that 31-year-old Father Ryan Erickson murdered the two men to cover his tracks after one of them learned that Erickson had been sexually assaulting a teenage boy. In December 2004, shortly after being questioned by police, Erickson hanged himself outside his rectory. In a suicide note he denied killing anyone, but testimony from 15 witnesses and evidence presented by prosecutor Eric Johnson painted a picture of a desperately troubled priest...
Speaking to more than 400 people gathered in Ames Courtroom, the two justices—who often are at odds with each other in court opinions—locked horns most vigorously when discussing the role of foreign law in shaping legal decisions in the U.S., but also made time for informal discussion and jokes...