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Today, let's talk about "The Good Wife" S01E02.
Plot Outline
A stripper, Christy Barbosa, has come to the law firm to accuse the son of Chicago's most powerful McKeon family of raping him four months ago. Diane didn't want to accept Christy because she didn't trust Christy and worried that she was deliberately hyping it up to make money, and Will thought it was profitable. The McKeon family would pay compensation for the sake of fame, and finally persuaded Diane. Will and Alicia believe Christy's allegations are true after McKeon family lawyers make an overly generous offer, and they help her seek more compensation. The key witness in Christy's case was another stripper and driver, and the key evidence was semen. In the search for evidence, NSW prosecutors' Glenn Childs put Alicia and investigator Kalinda in a difficult position because he believed Alicia was looking for a loophole in him to help her husband get out of jail.
Alicia's children find out that someone sent Peter's sex scandal photos to their home to hurt Alicia, and Zach uses computer technology to compare the photos and find out that the photos are fake. Since this case involved prostitutes, Alicia's heart was hurt, and she even suspected that the client had an affair with Peter.
The judge who took over the case was the new liberal judge who was on good terms with Diane, but the court was fair, Will had to speed things up, Alicia got the evidence wrong in a hurry, sorry to Will, and worse, the key evidence The semen was not Mr. McKeon's. After comparing the evidence, Alicia found that the evidence was contaminated by a laboratory error, but Alicia and the others lost the case in the end.
When Mr. McKeon puffed up his innocence to the media, the police arrested him because the Children found uncontaminated semen on Alicia's foundation and charged him with criminal charges. Although Alicia lost the case, Justice was not blind.
JUSTICE is not blind.
Key points of the plot:
Alicia and others tried hard to prove that the unprofessional laboratory led to the contamination of the key evidence of semen, so they came to an incorrect result. Is innocent, also can not prove his guilt, Alicia they lost the case, their case is a civil case.
Later, the Childs arrested Mr. McKeon because they found new semen evidence. But in any case, the guilty person finally fell under the law.
PS: The driver of this episode is Mr. Senator in the first season of "House of Cards", the one who was finally killed in the garage by President Shimoki.
background knowledge
1. The Duke Hockey Case
Duke Lacrosse is a gang rape case misled by public opinion. On the evening of March 12, 2006, a party of the Duke University hockey team invited an African-American college student stripper to perform. Afterwards, the stripper accused three players of gang-raping him. The case attracted national attention. This case has been portrayed by the media as a typical "rich oppressing the poor" before the outcome. Duke University has always been a symbol of elite class and racism, and hockey players are more typical of them, white, rich, conceited, and the so-called "victim" strip girl is portrayed as a typical image of the weak, poor, college During the period, the African-American mother who worked hard to make money, the public opinion naturally fell to the weak side.
At the time, prosecutor Mike Nifong (State's Attorney of County, who, like Peter's previous position, now the Children), was forced to go to trial under pressure to elect a hockey player who prosecuted Duke University for lack of evidence. The final case was a shocking reversal. The strip girl herself admitted that it was adultery rather than gang rape, and the prosecutor finally dropped the case because there was no evidence. Prosecutor Mike Nifong was dismissed and disbarred, and ended up in personal bankruptcy because of Duke's claims.
The strip girl Christy Barbosa accused the rich and powerful brother Mr. McKeon of rape is very similar to the Duke University rape case, and the accused Mr. McKeon's family is the financial master of his election, so Childs initially refused to prosecute, Christy case could not be In a criminal case, you can only find a lawyer to file a civil lawsuit. At first, Will and others also thought that this was another Duke Lacrosse Ⅱ case, so there was a dispute, and Will believed that the case was profitable because no matter what What the strip girl said was true or false, and the Mr. McKeon family would choose to settle the matter with money in order to protect their reputation.
2.Pretrial _
Legal language, bringing together plaintiffs, defendants, etc. in a courtroom before a formal trial begins, briefly stating the proceedings and determining the issues to be considered, Pretrial is more useful in civil litigation than in criminal cases.
In this episode, Mr. McKeon is a public figure and needs to deal with his own accusations quickly, so as not to attract media attention and damage his reputation, so Will judges that the opposing lawyer hopes to solve the problem before the formal trial begins.
3. M ace
The defense sprayer is produced by MSI (Mace Security International), a Mace Security International company headquartered in New Jersey, USA. The pepper self-defense sprayer produced by MACE is the first brand recognized in the world.
Due to the high popularity of its products, the word Mace has been included in the English dictionary, which means: Mace gas (a temporarily harmful compressed liquid gas).
4.SOCIAL
The full English name of the US Social Security Card is "Social Security Card". The 9-digit number on the Social Security Card is the "Social Security Number", abbreviated as SSN. Social Security numbers are generally written in a format similar to 818-89-9988. The original purpose of SSN was to track personal taxation, but now its use has been expanded to include distinguishing individual identities, similar to the role of a Chinese resident ID number.
5. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Original: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The first U.S. Congress enacted the First Amendment to the Constitution in 1791: "The Congress of the United States is prohibited from making any law to establish the state religion; to impede freedom of religious belief; to deny freedom of speech; to infringe on freedom of the press and assembly; right.
The freedom of the press is part of freedom of speech and is therefore protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the judge rejected Mr. McKeon's request for a closed file and a closed trial on this grounds.
The freedom of the press is very important in the United States, one of the most famous cases is "New York Times v. United States" in 1971, directed by Stephen Spielberg in 2017, Aunt May and Tom Hanks The co-star political thriller The Post is based on that event.
6. EMILY's List
EMILY's List is an American Political Action Committee (PAC) designed to help elect women candidates who support the election (hence Will initially called EMILY's List a glass ceiling committee), founded by Ellen Malcolm in 1985. According to the Washington Examiner, EMILY's List is "the nation's most influential pro-choice political action committee. Its name EMILY is an acronym for "Early Money Is Like Yeast."
Diane, a successful woman in the workplace, should be a member of EMILY's List, so she can help Judge Abernathy get into EMILY's List in this episode. Judge Abernathy's success as a judge had Diane's help, so Will hoped that Diane would come to court during the trial, hoping that Judge Abernathy could take Diane's face and make the situation more favorable.
7. Darfur
The Darfur issue is a series of international and regional geopolitical issues caused by Darfur in the African Sudan. Because the borders of Sudan were artificially demarcated in the 19th century when European powers carved up Africa and enforced colonial rule. Many tribes in Darfur have been assigned to different countries, so the tribes in this region are inextricably linked with neighboring countries. With the continuous development of oil and other mineral resources in Darfur, the struggle between tribes for resources has become increasingly fierce, and some neighboring countries have also been involved in various forms.
An estimated 450,000 people have died from violence and disease in Sudan's Darfur region, which erupted in conflict in 2003. US Secretary of State Colin Powell on September 9, 2004, characterized the incident as a genocide, but the United Nations in 2005 determined that the Sudanese government's actions in Darfur were not genocide.
Language Points
In view of a lot of background knowledge in this episode, Language Point will only introduce one of the most classic, Hail Mary Pass.
American slang, often used in sports. In fact, the word was originally related to religion. Hail means cheering and praise, and Mary is the name of the Virgin Mary. The traditional prayers of Roman Catholics to the Virgin begin with Hail Mary, which means all blessings, Virgin Mary. Maria.
Later in American football, it was used to say that the game was at the last minute, and one side made a desperate pass after being a few points behind, hoping to win the opportunity to come back from defeat. The distance of this pass is often very long, sometimes as long as more than 60 meters, that is, as far as the quarterback on the team can shoot. This pass often fails to turn the game around. However, it cannot be denied that there are occasional opportunities to pass the ball successfully, and when players make such a desperate pass, they often pray to the Virgin Mary to bless the successful pass so that his team can win.
Later, it was turned to the business and political circles to refer to the last resort of taking risks or the last chance to fight against the odds.
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