As Jack McCoy (Sam Waterson) said on LAW & ORDER: "lawyers, trying to turn infinite shades of gray into black and white." In other words, despite our concepts of the rule of law, what really happens is a matter of some lawyer/judge's opinion. What may be illegal in Atlanta is legal San Francisco -- in Federal Court, forget different state laws. Take a class in Business Law at your local community college - you'll be shocked at how the system really works. Nothing that you believe about truth or justice applies. I worked for over ten years in the criminal injustice system and I had to get out -- it's too insane for the average person to stomach, so we all pretend it's like LAW & ORDER on TV. Believe me it's not.