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Law Practice,
Appellate Practice

Dec. 2, 2022

The blood, sweat and cancel culture that goes with being a televised legal analyst

The public's unending modern day fascination with celebrities in trouble began with the televised Zsa Zsa Gabor Beverly Hills cop slapping trial and then took a meteoric rise during the Halcyon days for legal analysts in the wall-to-wall coverage of the O.J. trial

Dana M. Cole

Cole & Loeterman

Phone: (310) 556-8300

Email: dana@danacolelaw.com

Dana is a criminal defense attorney in Century City.

Robin Sax

Email: robin@robinsax.com

People have an insatiable appetite for crime, celebrity and TV. High profile, high stakes jury trials are simultaneously occurring at present on the high-security Ninth Floor of the Foltz Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles involving Harvey Weinstein and Danny Masterson, respectively. Reporters and legal analysts practically collide into each other as they run back and forth between courtrooms.

With this backdrop, the Los Ange...

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