Real Lawyer Reacts to Law & Order (ft. Doctor Mike)

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Imagine you went to court for drunk driving and your defense was "your honor, I could have still crashed if I had been sober"

I just like how they are both actually interested in each other's expertise. They ask each other questions.

This episode hit close to home. I used to be a bad alcoholic, drinking a pint to a liter of rum every day. When I finally accepted I had a problem and went to get treatment, I had 2 seizures from the withdrawal, along with all the other DTs. After almost 3 years spent relapsing over and over again (sobriety is HARD) I'm finally going to be 1 year sober in January!!

Re: OJ Simpson getting free He was of course acquitted on criminal charges, but when the families of Ron and Nicole took him to civil court for wrongful death, he was absolutely decimated. The jury unanimously stopped short of saying "yeah, he did it", and the judge ordered him to pay $33,500,000, which he was unable to. He ended up selling many personal possessions, defaulted on the mortgage on his house, and filed for bankruptcy, at which point the Goldman family made claims and won the rights to OJ's horrid book If I Did It, which they republished under the new title, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer. Note that as a final screw you to the man who took their loved one, the Goldmans made the "if" on the dust jacket so tiny that it appears to read I Did It. All of this is to say that OJ Simpson may not have been convicted, but there was some justice in that he ended up losing absolutely everything.

"thanks to that little girl being murdered by me, other little kids get to live" so you're okay with murder, doctor? Seems like the easy follow-up

"This is known??? He's free right now!!!" Omg Mike's reaction to finding out how badly justice was miscarried in the OJ trial was adorable, lol

I can't imagine the face of the doctor's attorney when he actually tried to justify the wrongful death of his patient basically saying "Yeah, I may or may have not killed this little girl while being drunk, but hey, at least other people got her organs so it wasn't entirely bad" That is single handedly the most incriminatory statement if not blantant confession you can say on the strand

"I object!" "On what grounds?!" "IT'S DEVASTATING TO MY CASE!"

“I would destroy this guy on cross” was my reaction to every Law & Order clip I’ve seen 😂 love this collab sm

"Is everyone covering for him because he has something over everyone's head?" Dr. Mike just perfectly described my former principal who was also, and continues to be, a barely functioning alcoholic.

This could be the basis for an entire YouTube channel and I would pay money to watch it.

The thing about judges who recently are giving lighter sentences was debunked - it was a data artefact caused because judges packed all the short cases (which are usually easy convictions/rejections) just before lunch.

"Hell hath no fury like a lawyer after lunch break" - I think that's deserves to be on a Legal Eagle merch badge!

My mother had a dentist once that hurt her and two others while 'attempting' to practice while under the influence. In our state, at the time, if a medical or dental provider did this but entered rehab, the state shielded them and spared their licenses. Our local DA launched an effort to change the laws. Some years later, that same dentist was caught selling nitrous "shots" to local teens. Finally, the state HAD to remove his license due to tge law changes.

Also in the OJ Simpson case, instead of using a new pair of the same gloves in the same size, the prosecution used the same gloves, which had been covered in blood and were stiff and thus did not fit as they would have before the crime was committed.

fun fact about the whole "dont drink and cut people" vs "delirium tremens" thing: when my mother was a nurse in training about 30 years ago, the chief of surgery was actually one of those where everyone knew they needed 2 shots before being able to hold a scalpel without shaking, and the official unofficial policy was "i know nothing, i see nothing" because they were just the most experienced surgeon they had and didn't wanna lose them...

6:05 I think the most objectionable thing here is that bailiff leaning against the wall while a lawyer enters the well without gaining permission first.

i was a TA and co-facilitator for a Medical Ethics class for first year Med Students. we did a week on TV depictions of medicine, for example, how heart attacks are presented as something you can leave the hospital from the same day, if you even needed to go to the hospital at all. turns out, the majority of people who have heart attacks require hospital stays and it is a live altering event.

Fun OJ Fact: He stopped taking his anti-inflammatory drugs to make his hands swell so the glove would not fit as well as doing strenuous hand exercises for weeks prior to really seal the con deal.