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...that may explain the success of Judy Sheindlin, a former New York City family-court judge and the resident scourge on Judge Judy, which as of this month is the eighth most popular show in syndication. The appeal of TV-judge shows is that they are little more than highly structured versions of Jerry Springer, in which the feuding idiots are silenced by a decisive moral authority instead of a bald bouncer. Judge Judy developed this formula in September 1996, and was followed a season later by a revival of the '80s show The People's Court, currently presided over...
...increasingly crowded TV bench worries legal experts like University of Southern California law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, a talking head during the O.J. proceedings, who fears people will expect the law to act as quickly and superficially as Sheindlin and her colleagues do. "They want to present a case in 30 minutes, and it's difficult to do that without oversimplification," Chemerinsky says. "The judge in the courtroom is interested in following the law and creating fair procedures in the court of law. A judge on TV is only interested in the drama of the proceedings, in good television, and those...
...more. Now Sheindlin, 55, is a one-woman justice machine. She says, "I may be wrong, but you're not going to misconstrue what I said. Why do I have to use polysyllabic explanations when a single syllable will do it--'No,' 'Wrong'? If I have to use two--'Stupid...
...precedent-setting ruling, New York Judge Gerald Sheindlin questioned the reliability of certain procedures employed by Lifecodes Corp., one of the nation's leading DNA-testing firms. Sheindlin agreed that DNA techniques "are generally accepted in the scientific community and can produce reliable results." But he ruled that in the murder case of Bronx janitor Joseph Castro, Lifecodes "failed in several major respects to use the generally accepted scientific techniques and experiments for obtaining reliable results...
...resorted to costly tertiary recovery methods in some of its fields. Solar energy, which Americans hope eventually will ease their energy problems, is not taken seriously by Soviet scientists, who, for the most part, seem not only highly competent but almost aggressively realistic. Explains Academician Alexander Sheindlin, director of the Soviet Union's High Temperature Institute: "The U.S.S.R. is a northern country. We cannot rely on the sun for energy...