Not counting crap like Live PD, the Law & Order franchise is almost certainly more guilty than any other media brand of promoting copaganda—since it’s been telling stories about hero cops who always get the bad guys and hero prosecutors who always find the right way to lock them up for 30 years—but now Dick Wolf and his venerable TV institution have landed on a revolutionary new concept: What if the bad guys didn’t actually do it?
What if sometimes people end up in the criminal justice system unjustly?
What if there was someone whose whole job was to defend people in court?