Does anyone else find it amusing that the media types are always eager to pounce on the tiniest incongruities in the newspaper storyline, but no one bats an eye at Clay Davis apparently going from grand jury to trial to acquittal in, like, a day and a half?

Judicial proceedings are normally quite boring, and TV drama requires that they be speeded up and compressed. Clay Davis's trial was a pretty leisurely affair compared to what defendants get on "Law & Order."

> Judicial proceedings are normally quite boring, and TV drama requires that they be speeded up and compressed.

True. My point was that the reviewers accept this kind of thing as part of the game in most cases, but immediately cry foul when the same principles are applied to their own milieu.

That said, I do think the "compression" was particularly cheesy and egregious in this case, and beneath a show that prides itself on verisimilitude as much as The Wire does.

I agree. I've been on these guys for their nitpicking and negativity, so it's fitting that the one thing they love I find completely ridiculous. There's no way a politician would just hijack a court proceeding like that -- and there's no way a jury would fall for it. It's a deeply cynical outcome from a show that generally earns its resolutions. It was like a bad Law & Order episode.

Honestly anyone who has followed jury trials in Baltimore City could find it entirely plausable that jury would fall for Clay Davis' act. Truth be told it is the more probable outcome.