Any Lawyers? Quashed vs Squashed
SIE2 character Leonard Letts tells Corey that the dismissal was "squashed." I know I heard it correctly but I thought the term was quashed.
He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.
It is quashed. Whether he was trying to say quashed or meant squashed like under foot, who knows. This show is so unrealistic from a legal standpoint is laughable. They can't even get the term incorrect.
shareIt is quashed. Whether he was trying to say quashed or meant squashed like under foot, who knows. This show is so unrealistic from a legal standpoint is laughable. They can't even get the term incorrect.
I so agree. And they had that grand courtroom, too! When many courtrooms today look like cracker boxes.
Having a little -- or a lot -- of knowledge about certain professions often makes tv watching impossible. The things they get wrong take you right out of the experience. Shows about lawyers are probably the worst, though many medical shows get it wrong, too. share
"They can't even get the term incorrect".
Was that what you meant to say?
They probably didn't think the viewers would understand "quashed." But it sounded idiotic to me.
Now I have to ask a silly question, because I honestly no longer remember much from law school. When Marva objects that no wrongful act is named in the pleading, the lawyer (can't remember her name) tells her "res ipsa." But I seem to remember "res ipsa loquitur" as a negligence doctrine, not a wrongful death one. Or did she just decide to give Marva a general sort of answer in Latin?
So having just finished my first semester in law school and passing torts, Res Ipsa Loquiter is definitely a negligence doctrine. Res Ipsa Loquiter, "the thing speaks for itself", allows the Plaintiff to satisfy the burden of production in specific situations because the act itself serves as evidence of negligence... I definitely think the doctrine was misstated in the show.
When the prosecution calls for the head of the defense's legal firm, and the defense uses the prosecution's lead investigator as witness, you can pretty much dismiss it as pure fantasy by that point.
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