With experts like these

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I am watching Keith Olberman's show with its substitute host. He has a legal analist on who is speaking about the Yates case. Ms. Filan, who is a former prosecutor, baldly lied to the viewers. She said that the trials had the same witnesses, same evidence, and same experts. No they didn't. The first trial was overturned because a state expert lied on the stand about the existance of a Law and Order episode. I am no legal expert, nor am I obscessed with this case, but I knew this. She should have too and frankly I think she did. She chose to tell a lie.

[MichiganVote]

1. Something wrong with that whole pros. team.

Anybody with half a brain could see that woman was nuts at the time of those killings.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Where do they get some of these characters?

Her name is Susan Filan, and she's almost as awful as Nancy Grace. Same shrill, too-fast delivery; same freepish loathing for a defendant, especially one who has been acquitted. There are a lot of lawyers out there; you'd think they could find someone who could be rational and neutral about these things. Sometimes they use Jonathan Turley, a very respected law professor, but he does the heavy duty constitutional stuff. i guess for the tabloidy criminal cases they prefer some bimbonic woman with moussed hair, shiny lips and a screechy voice. Like Nancy Grace, or maybe what you'd get if Rita Cosby had gone to law school.

She really was dreadful.

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3. Her demeanor was bad enough

but her lack of any apparent knowledge about the case she supposedly is an expert about.