Law in Popular Culture
Lawyer Apologizes After Screaming at Prosecutor on National TV
Posted Jul 15, 2009, 11:32 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A Dallas criminal defense lawyer who got riled and screamed at the district attorney on national TV later acknowledged he was probably out of line.
The outburst was captured on a new program on A&E called After the First 48, according to Tex Parte Blog. The show chronicles the prosecution of suspects arrested by detectives whose work for the first two days is chronicled in another program, The First 48.
Criminal defense lawyer Edwin King was the first to yell, the blog says. It all started when Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Marc Moffitt told a judge that a key witness was missing “because some lawyer told them they didn’t have to come.” King apparently thought Moffitt was referring to him.
King “got in Moffitt’s face and screamed ‘That’s a [BLEEP] lie!’ ” according to the blog’s report. Moffitt yelled back, “I didn’t say it was you!”
King later apologized in an interview on the program. “I was probably out of line,” King said. “I shouldn’t have acted the way I did. It was inappropriate for me to respond the way I did, and I apologized to the judge. But hey, that’s just life in the trial.”
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