Court Trials as Inimitable Entertainment

I always feel high watching a court drama, more specially a real one. But I don't have the way with words or the facility with the language to be able to portary my sentiment vividly and sharply.

Then I came across Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Myth of Moral Justice.. On page 5 of this work he describes the drama in a court room in an aesthetical manner as I would have wished to:

Trials are where the human drama unfolds in a public spectacle of infinite variety and amusement. The dress code is formal, even though the secrets and lies are laid bare. It is an atmosphere that looms with solemnity and ceremony, yet the disclosures that arise from such proceedings are often indiscreet and out of order. Characters are believable precisely because they are real. There is no need for central casting in a courthouse. The roles are already taken by people who don't know their lines. The stories are their own; the emotions raw and yet, at the same time, overcooked. It is in a courtroom where the presumptions of justice, innocence, and guilt must contend with the more primal, less predictable stuff of life--the dashed hopes and false dreams, the longings that have gone on far too long, the resentments that linger, and the grievances that never found time, or the poper place, to grieve.. The courthouse turns each of us into witnesses. The confessions and admissions, the shame and the stain,the broken silences and invoked privileges, the surprise turns and numbing tedium, all catch our attention and hold us willing prisoners. Pure entertainment under the cover and pretense of a legal system at work.

It is not surprising that Rosenbaum writes about the law with such elan and elegance. Los Angeles Times Book Review says of him: "Rosenbaum seeks to use law as a means not simply of achieving justice but of changing the hearts of humankind." He has the gifts, the training and the tool to so achieve. More than a lawyer, he is an educator and an artist.