Sex Crimes Prosecutor Grades 'Law & Order: SVU' Episodes on Accuracy
A federal sex crimes prosecutor—who also just had her first novel, Law of Attraction published—is systematically taking on the accuracy of this season’s Law & Order: SVU.
Don’t get her wrong—it’s not that she doesn’t like these types of shows. “Law & Order was part of what inspired me to go to law school and become a prosecutor,” Allison Leotta writes in the inaugural post of her new blog, The Prime-Time Crime Review. “But now when I relax in front of the TV, only half my mind is enjoying the story. The other half wants to stand up and shout, ‘Objection!’ “
Leotta is now blogging her praise and objections in Thursday-morning posts that summarize what each episode got right and wrong and give each episode a letter grade.
Law professor Michael M. O’Hear writes at Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog that he could pitch Prime-Time Crime Review “as a crim-pro supplement for law students, but really it’s much more entertaining than that would imply.”
Eric Lipman at Legal Blog Watch has also checked out Leotta’s blog and thinks that she sometimes grades too easy. Despite a “litany of unrealistic stuff” Leotta documents in episode 3 of this season (one quote from Leotta’s review of this episode: “In real life, all the cops on this show would have been fired”), “she gives the show an A- ‘because of its important, relevant, and powerful message about the need to process the backlog of sex kits in this country.’ Come on, Allison! You’re a prosecutor fer chrissakes. Be tough!”
