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In article <10bvt78$5seh$1@dont-email.me>, ahk@chinet.com wrote:

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Price gets a girlfriend. It's Kerry Bishe playing the world's most
oblivious child psychiatrist.

At a private middle school, the marching band conductor awards the
trumpet solo to the boy, and the girl looks angry enough to kill. The
boy is the murder victim. At the crime scene, Riley still have no
partner; same five-abreast character walk on the opening titles. Yee
does not join Riley in the field.

The girl is a red herring. It's another girl, out of revenge for the
boy, her best friend since they were little, making fake pr0n from a >photograph she had given him showing her curvy (but not catalog model
thin) body in lingerie.

Riley, then Brady, interview the girl separately. With Riley, her father
is present at home and at the precinct interview room. Now, the father, >despite being rich, doesn't hire a lawyer yet. With Brady, the underage
girl IS NOT interviewed with her father. She confesses. You think the
judge will throw it out? You becha, and it should be thrown out.

Baxter orders Price to make sure the girl is tried as an adult because
since last week's episode, Price prosecuted a teenage boy and known gang >banger as an adult and it's only fair. Uh, ok.

Price's idiot girlfriend, in the completely unexpected plot twist,
reveals that she's an expert witness for the defense to have her tried
as a juvenile as she's her psychiatrist.

At this point, the audience is infuriated. How exactly was it possible
that the psychiatrist had absolutely no idea of the crime either before
or after the fact?

What are the ethics here? Doesn't Price have to be replaced? It seems
not.

Having lost the confession, Baxter orders Price to offer a plea bargain; >rejected.

Given that BTR1701 has repeatedly browbeaten the writers, for once,
defense gives notice of a self defense affirmative defense before trial >starts. Defense makes up a bullshit theory of the crime which Price
cannot challenge as the confession had been thrown out.

The girl testifies on her own behalf, trying to explain the nonsense
theory of the crime. Somehow Price did nothing to humanize the victim, >lawyering 101, and we saw nothing of the prosecution's case. She's such
a good little sociopath that Price sees the jury look at her piteously,
with one juror crying openly.

In rebuttal, Price does a tiny bit of damage, as the first girl,
rehearsing with the murder victim, has told the perpetrator when
rehearsal ended.

Maroun, in one of two lines of dialog, spots digital evidence that
police forensics completely missed. The girl had another account using
a pseudonym; no explanation for how Maroun found it. She sent messages
to Price's idiot girlfriend right before the crime!

Price has to explain to her, then threaten her with a supeona, then
treat her like a hostile witness, there this is no confidentiality if
the patient has threatened to harm himself or another. In fact, there's
an ethical duty to warn.

The girl told her psychiatrist she was about to commit murder, but gosh,
the psychiatrist didn't see this as a warning sign because other
patients who have threatened to commit murder or self harm hadn't
followed through.

Conviction.

Price waits for his idiot girlfriend to show up to dinner. She does, but >she's very late. Uh, dump her.

It did not appear that Odelya Halevi was present for the entire
production week. Numerous scenes in the courtroom, Maroun has
disappeared from, with Price sitting in the middle of the prosecution
table.

[Kerman's incorrect subject header fixed.]

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