May be not. But there only has to be reasonable doubt for the jurors to acquit a defendant. Not to highlight the defendant skills and knowledge of forensics and then highlight how this highly skilled, highly knowledgeable person forget all of that knowledge whilst committing this crime is just crappy lawyering.

It was funny but also a little disconcerting that Cisco and Harry have determined that Caitlin’s transformation can be triggered by emotional abuse.

last season, that same judge acquitted a one-off villain who BURNED PEOPLE ALIVE with a flamethrower, but he thinks puppy dog Barry Allen is the evilest evil that ever evil’d LMAO this show!

“He is also the adoptive son of a policeman and someone who inherited a lot of money for a bright scientist. He could have arranged a hit in that person or something, but he is a brilliant mastermind, so he killed that person himself and never asked for help at all”

I agree with that.

I literally yelled at the screen when she just immediately showed the pics to Marlize and the jury. She should’ve kept quiet about them and asked a line of questions leading to “were you faithful to your husband?” and press until Devoe unequivocally says she was faithful. THEN reveal the pictures and boom, instant…

Thanks, Allison, for touching on how over-the-top the judge’s sentencing remarks were. Guy made the judge in Office Space sound measured.

This is so fucking dumb.

“Mr. Allen is an expert in crime scene forensics. He knows how to manipulate that type of  evidence. That’s why when he committed murder, he did so in his own apartment, in such a way that every single piece of evidence points to him, and him alone!”

I watched this episode at the start for about five minutes, said, “This is stupid”, and switched. The idea that Barry Allen, accomplished forensics scientist with a completely clean police record and someone known to the department since he was a child, would murder a man he barely knew, in his own apartment, and no…

The writing was really, really, bad. I don’t know what’s going on with this season, unless it’s trying to keep to the unwritten Arrowverse rule that “at least one season has to go off to rails”.

“We’re bringing the fun back to The Flash!”

I don’t think the law really matters in this show considering they had Cecile take a leave of absence to defend Barry (which wouldn’t be allowed in the real world anyways)... That too it also wouldn’t be allowed for Barry to just leave court like he did in this episode.

Word to Cecile being the worst defense attorney ever. “His boss likes him!”and “He’s a good man!” is the best she could do when it comes to reasons he couldn’t have done it? Although the DA going to, “Oh yeah? If he’s so great, how come he was late so much? Huh?” was a pretty hilariously inept comeback, too. I guess…

Re: Iris recording the conversation (& sorry for bringing actual law into this but this is something I had to deal with fairly recently). It depends on state law. Some states allow “single-party recording,” where only one person present at the conversation has to know that it is being recorded. Other states require…

I can forgive the comic-book-ish rush through the investigation and trial and sentencing.

Yeah, Dr. The Mechanic’s testimony was definitely the highlight of this episode, chewing the scenery with the relentlessness of a termite. Also Cisco and Harry shouting at Caitlin about the kittens (or whatever cute animals they were shouting about). But Black Lightning was definitely the superior superhero hour.

If you would have told me in the first, say, 3 episodes of Supergirl that it would consistently go from strength to strength, and be more solid and arguably stronger than The Flash (or Arrow for that matter), I’d’ve called you crazy. But here we are. And I’m gonna go even further and say that Legends is outstripping…

Me during the episode

Were the trial scenes perfunctory and swift? Yes. But did I want to see it stretched out and dragged on? Hell no.