Can someone please clarify the whole "In my opinion" stuff in the courtroom? I have spent time IN actual courtrooms and have never experienced this whole "in my opinion" thing. Can someone please explain this? Thanks.
By solesister - "Get thee to a nunnery!"
This was just a nod to the fact that some judges are VERY eccentric and have their little preferences that people are supposed to know about and cater to. A lot of the judges appearing on the show WERE quite odd -- but I used to work in court for many years, and I know that some real judges are like that, in different ways.
People seemed to like the "in my opinion" judge, for some reason (she was played by an actress who was very popular on Saturday Night Live, Ana Gasteyer), so they kept bringing her back so they could baffle more lawyers who didn't know she always wanted you to say that. There were other judges I liked better.
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shareI wont add to this but i just wanna say i loved the scenes in that courtroom. very funny
shareI really liked Judge Abernathy, and he was the most eccentric of all the judges on the show, in my opinion.
shareI liked Judge Abernathy a lot, too. But I think my favourite judge was Judge Marx, the elderly fellow everyone assumed was a doddering old coot, with a hearing aid.
My favourite exchange, when Viola Walsh was playing a demo that was explaining how Internet search engines work:
Judge Marx: May I interrupt here?Beautiful! share
Viola Walsh: Yes, Your Honor, of course. Is it ... is it loud enough?
Judge Marx: Is this necessary? Isn't it just trying to explain a template-based link analysis algorithm?
Viola Walsh: Uh, yes, Your Honor.
Judge Marx: Okay. Then we can turn it off. There's no jury. Just me.
Viola Walsh: Of course, Your Honor. My apologies.