An ambitious defense attorney tries to use a murder case as a referendum on the death penalty, but Jack is worried that her client may not be getting the best advice.An ambitious defense attorney tries to use a murder case as a referendum on the death penalty, but Jack is worried that her client may not be getting the best advice.An ambitious defense attorney tries to use a murder case as a referendum on the death penalty, but Jack is worried that her client may not be getting the best advice.
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- (as Augustin M. Rodriguez)
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on several different cases/incidents:
- The 2006 West Nickel Mines School shooting.
- The 2000 Wendy's massacre. Five people were killed during a robbery at a New York City Wendy's. One of the killers was sentenced to death but New York State's highest court overturned the death penalty in New York in 2004, which commuted the killer's sentence to life in prison.
- The 2004 People v. John Taylor case and subsequent legislative efforts to reinstate the capital punishment law in New York.
- The 1986-1989 escape and killing spree of Allan Legere.
- GoofsThere is no elevated train at 50th Street and 10th Avenue.
- Quotes
Lt. Anita Van Buren: Lots of folks gonna remember this face.
Detective Nina Cassady: It doesn't place.
Detective Ed Green: He slaughtered five people in a burger joint in '97.
Detective Nina Cassady: The Midtown massacre? That I remember.
Detective Ed Green: I was working Narcotics around the corner at the time. I was one of the first to respond. I testified at his trial.
Lt. Anita Van Buren: They put him on death row.
Detective Ed Green: Three times over, but they changed the law before they got the needle in him. This is the bastard that's supposed to be dead.
A lot of people can never wrap their minds around the concept of pure evil. Walker is the reason we have a death penalty statute, a stone cold killer without remorse or regret or even a qualm about taking a life. Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, Walker's character is in their mold.
Before taking him down Walker kills several school children in a school he took refuge in. Sam Waterston seeks to apply capital punishment and get it from legislative limbo from where it is. But before that can happen, Jeremy Davidson the father of one of the murdered children kills him on the courthouse steps.
As his lawyer Catherine Dent is also a candidate for State Senate and she offers her assistance pro bono. But this trial and the media attention it's getting is worth more than all the advertising she can buy on the air. She's working her own agenda as both Waterston and Alana DeLa Garza plainly see.
All I can say about this one is beware of certain pro bono lawyers.
- bkoganbing
- Feb 9, 2013