Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence

The movie of the week was inspired by a true story. Writer Tom Greene was discussing story ideas with a prominent Beverly Hills attorney who told him about a case he had just been involved in when one of his clients, a famous Los Angeles entrepreneur and owner of a LA based basketball team who had his nephew arrested for Grand Theft Auto, when the nephew got into an argument with him and took his expensive car out for a joy ride without asking permission. The nephew was arrested, and the entrepreneur wanted him to stay in the LA County Jail for a few days to "teach him a lesson". This attorney pleaded with his client to bail him out, since at the time the LA County Jail was a hell-hole, and not the place for a young man like his pampered nephew to spend even one second in. He finally convinced him to bail the boy out after 24 hours, however they discovered he was now remanded to maximum security since the night before he had killed an inmate who he claimed had tried to sexually attack him. The lawyer then had to defend the boy, who went in for a GTA, and now was charged with first degree murder. Much of the intrigue and misconduct by the DA's office as portrayed in the story were also based on actually events during the trial.