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* PompousPoliticalPundit: Suzanne Fulcrum, the presenter of the political ShowWithinAShow ''American Crime'', was extremely quick to label the accused person of the week guilty, especially because [[GoodClientsGoodLawyers said accused person had TNT&G as lawyers]] (she had a very big beef with Ron Trott). The trope is played with because a few of said clients really ''[[JerkassHasAPoint were]]'' guilty.
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* PompousPoliticalPundit: Suzanne Fulcrum, the presenter of the political ShowWithinAShow ''American Crime'', was extremely quick to label the accused person of the week guilty, especially because [[GoodClientsGoodLawyers [[GoodLawyersGoodClients said accused person had TNT&G as lawyers]] (she had a very big beef with Ron Trott). The trope is played with because a few of said clients really ''[[JerkassHasAPoint were]]'' guilty.
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* PompousPoliticalPundit: Suzanne Fulcrum, the presenter of the political ShowWithinAShow ''American Crime'', was extremely quick to label the accused person of the week guilty, especially because [[GoodClientsGoodLawyers said accused person had TNT&G as lawyers]] (she had a very big beef with Ron Trott). The trope is played with because a few of said clients really ''[[JerkassHasAPoint were]]'' guilty.
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* NeverMyFault: The victim's father in Episode 13 ultimately caused his son's death by both leaving a tall bookcase where the kid could climb it and ignoring the defendant's warnings because he was drinking. Even after it's spelled out for him in no uncertain terms he continues to blame the victim because he can't admit his own incompetence is what got his child killed.
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* NecroCam: The show's main gimmick is that, at the beginning of each episode, you'd see what the jury believed had happened, with what really happened at the end. In at least one case, it was shown that the wrong person went to jail.
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* HardTruthAesop: In Episode 13, the message is "an innocent person shouldn't loose their freedom to protect a grieving family's feelings."
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* CourtroomAntics
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* RealSongThemeTune: The chorus of WarrenZevon's "Lawyers, Guns And Money" was used for the opening sequence. Also a pretty good use of SecondVerseCurse (cutting right before "the shit has hit the fan"-which has happened to anybody who is desperate enough to hire TNT&G).
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* GoodIsNotNice: In order to save their innocent client in Episode 13 the team is forced to accuse a grieving father of causing his son's death by ignoring the defendant's warnings about a bookcase in his son's room. They're not happy about it but it does save the client and in the end we see that it was in fact the kid climbing the bookcase that got him killed.
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* JerkAssHasAPoint: In Episode 13 the heroes are forced to accuse the parents of the victim of negligence in order to save their client. Alden is visibly hesitant but as Ron points out "who leaves a 15 foot tall bookcase where a child can climb it?" As the end of the episode shows that is in fact what happened.
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* PetTheDog: Alden, who's otherwise a cynical hardass, is consistently compassionate to the two teenage clients they have.
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*** Luther is openly disturbed when he learns that the jury in the first Joshua Morton trial (one he prosecuted) convicted him because they were bothered he didn't take the stand in his own defense AND because Joshua's lawyer was utterly incompetent, which meant that for all intents and purposes Joshua didn't have a defense.
