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Reality In T. V Court
So lets separate reality from fiction in T.V. court shows or movies. Its expected mas drama and suspense with lots of surprisingly events. In many cases, just like with federal and also in the state level, we don’t usually convict judges, but judges usually are stating, “Over Rule” to an objection or “Sustain.” There is a movie called “The Judge” with great actors from Robert Duval (Joseph Palmer) as the judge from Indiana and Robert Downey Jr. (Hank) is the son a defense attorney while Billy Bob Thornton (Dwight Dickham) is the prosecutor looking to prosecute “The Judge” for first-degree murder. In real life Judges, attorneys, victims and offenders all go through a stage or stages of stress. During the case of “The Judge” Hank is interrogating
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