Not exact matches
The judge
did not
set a location for the two trials, but they were scheduled to take place
in her lower Manhattan
courtroom.
The
courtroom drama and masterful depictions of well - researched
settings more than make up for any predictability
in the plot, as
does his handling of a fairly common plot line of an elderly dying man leaving his entire fortune to a random fringe character,
in this case, his maid.
@Upnorth I pondered an estoppel argument, similar to a mistrial deliberately caused by a defendant, but I don't think that it fits a fact pattern where the fraud (fake evidence) is left out
in the world at the crime scene as opposed to something
in the
courtroom itself (e.g.
setting the court house on fire).
While he found it would be almost impossible to create an exact formula for determining when a lawyer has committed professional misconduct
in the
courtroom and agreed that it should be up to the Law Society to determine when misconduct took place, he
did offer a
set of basic principles that could be applied when trying to make a determination of
in - court misconduct.
While you still have to file final paperwork with the courts, the rest of the process can be
done in an office
setting, instead of
in the
courtroom, giving you total control of the process.