anyone watching criminal justice?

[ByThePowerOfGreyskull]

as above

[JimJammum]

Ditto with fast forwarding through the end as my heart nearly broke; almost made me want another baby, as the footage of her and the baby together was just so wonderful. I wept regularly.....

I think the writer was a barrister in a former life and so wanted to show the judicial procedure, warts and all, from start to finish. He was slated for being over the top for the previous series, but said that there are cops/solicitors/judges etc that are bent, just as there are ones that are brilliant. This may explain why the abuse and trial were not fleshed out or a bit holey - the situation of Joe's death, why she wouldn't talk etc were a sideline to showing what happens at each stage of the criminal procedure.

And the acting was amazing from every single member of that cast....BAFTA's all round.

[madusa]

i have just finished watching this as it has been running every night on BBC4

How gut wrenching

An abused women doesn't have the right state of mind to leave their abuser. He made sure she had no friends and made her life hell.

[ClaraDeLaNoche]

I am so embarassingly late with this thread.!

Any legal eagles out there? I watched the writer on BBC and he said the baby would be adopted. Now I know it's his story and all that, but is that a given, that if you're locked up they put your baby out for adoption?

I am consoling myself with the fact that I have decided the editors of this programme left out, by mistake, a montage of Juliet's kindly, sprite parents who would be only too delighted to take in Ella and sis.

[wannaBe]

and how many people thinking that the abuse justified the action think the death penalty is wrong?

[emkana]

I quite agree wannaBe. The fact remains that killing another human being is wrong, regardless how awful they are.

[wannaBe]

Why should she have got off though?

Regardless of what she was going through, she killed someone. I don't think that just leaving is necessarily the answer, as obviously abusive relationships don't work like that, but equally we couldn't send out the message that if you can't leave you can kill your husband and all will be well?

[Oblomov]

on herE, sorry !

[Oblomov]

LOL at Lenin and oozing.
Silly woman shouldn't have been checking her life insurance, she should have been on her delighting us with her bum sex saga's.
Well thats that all sorted then.
Jobs a good-un

[NyeEve]

"y TheOozingPusOfSeptim... Sun 11-Oct-09 23:44:04 Add a message | Report post | Contact poster

If only Juliet had known about Mumsnet.
It could have all been so different... "

ROFLRFORLFORFL

[TheOozingPusOfSeptimusSquelch]

We'd have told her all about Narcisstic Personality Disorder, given her the number for Women's Aid, and persuaded her to get the hell out of there.

Although she night have been put off us by the bumsex threads.

[TheOozingPusOfSeptimusSquelch]

If only Juliet had known about Mumsnet.
It could have all been so different...

[SpikySauce]

I think one significant point about Juliet's situation as compared perhaps to most victims of domestic abuse, is that she had sex with another man, and she was still seeing him on the QT very much behind her husband's back. Even though the doctor probably took advantage given her emotional state, she did have him to turn to and by having sex with someone else, she did show some independence.

From a plotline perspective though, the baby was vital, if only to show the tragic plight of children born to women prisoners.

[200yearoldhorsehair]

Good point, lenin.

[NyeEve]

so sh said "well what was the point of that then"

and i wasnt sure

[Oblomov]

Sorry I missed this thread.
Really enjoyed it.