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Jerry Orbach and Chris Noth in Law & Order (1990)

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Black Tie

Law & Order

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Factual errors

The insulin usage as described would lead to weight gain, not weight loss. Studies of Insulin usage in non-diabetics shows that it can suppress the appetite, leading to weight loss but using it after eating more food (cake in one example in the show) will lead to weight gain.
When questioning the house keeper during her testimony in the trial Stone asks several leading questions such as "did you find a syringe or any other drug paraphernalia on or near the body?" and the defense doesn't object to them. When a lawyer is asking questions of a witness in a trial they are supposed to keep the details in their questions to a minimum because the details need to come from the witness so that it doesn't appear that the witness is being coached and told what to say. The proper way to phrase that question would be "when you found the body what items, if any, did you find in the vicinity?"
One of the Appellate Court Justices' comments on Stone's argument on the subject of private investigators being exempt from the Fourth Amendment's protections against unwarranted searches: "carried to the extreme your argument says if a police officer doesn't have sufficient cause to get a warrant, he can just get a private citizen to do his dirty work". A justice of the New York Court of Appeals should know that is a ludicrous argument to make, it is not at all what Stone was arguing, and is a completely incorrect interpretation of the law. On numerous occasions the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as every state supreme court, has ruled that the police cannot use a private citizen, to obtain evidence on their behalf under circumstances that violate another person's constitutional rights. When the police, district attorney, or any other government agency hires or directs a private citizen to work on their behalf, that person becomes an agent of the police/government in the eyes of the law, and is required to operate by the exact same rules as the police, meaning they cannot gather evidence in a situation that would require either probable cause or a warrant. It is only when a private investigator/citizen is acting on their own initiative, or acting on behalf of another private citizen, that they are not limited by the rules of the Constitution.

Revealing mistakes

Mr. Quinn claimed to have found Lance Keyes "a little after 8:30. I found him on the bathroom floor, naked." But the view of Keyes at 1:38 of "Black Tie" clearly shows him lying on the bathroom floor and clad in what looks like boxer shorts.

Character error

Ben makes the common mistake of saying "He could care less", which means he does care some. The proper phrase is, "He COULDN'T care less".

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