Friday, March 03, 2006
Law and Order
Besides being the name of one of my favorite shows, this subject came up this morning. Listening to the news as I drove to work, there was a short story about a local murder trial. Some parents are being tried for the murder of their daughter with learning problems and each is accusing the other of being the one responsible.
However that isn't really what this is about. They played some testimony by the daughter's school principal who stated, "she was loved by everyone." Which flashed me to the L&O television show. How many times has Brisco or Fontana or Green questioned a witness (sidebar: does L&O have skels or only NYPD) about some victim and "she was loved by everyone" comes up. Talk about perjury. First, I doubt if anyone - especially a student slightly different in high school - is loved or even liked by everyone. Second, how does the principal know "everyone"? 6.5 billion plus people (as of last weekend) is a lot of people to know well enough to know how they feel about one student in Michigan.
