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...could bring Dershowitz the publicity he will likely receive courtesy of an upcoming guest appearance on a popular daytime television drama. A veteran of both the Geraldo Rivera and Morton Downey Jr. shows, Dershowitz will return to the airwaves as a special consultant to People's Court Judge Joseph Wapner...
During five shows tentatively scheduled for this week, Wapner occasionally mentions legal discussions with Dershowitz. In one, the civil libertarian is introduced in the audience...
...talk show geared to and hosted by youngsters. The opening of Kids' Court slyly satirizes TV courtroom shows: two young "litigants" face the camera in dramatic closeup and state their beefs, then whirl and burst into the courtroom-studio to the cheers of an audience. Take that, Judge Wapner...
...rent-a-judge option began in 1976 in California, the state that still accounts for more than half of all such proceedings. It is also the home of the country's most famous hired judge, Joseph Wapner of TV's People's Court, which is in effect a televised private proceeding. But the system has spread. Judicate, a Philadelphia-based network of some 450 judges, has handled nearly 800 cases this year in 34 states. In some of the states where hired judges can conduct virtual trials, the verdicts can also be reviewed by the regular appeals courts...
...True, he is well respected among national basketball writers, but that is most likely because they, not reading him daily, are not constantly bombarded with his pro-Celtic drivel. I have heard Harry Caray announce many Cubs games, but Ryan's biased cheerleading makes Caray sound like Judge Joseph Wapner...