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Maamla Legal Hai OTT release: Are you a fan of comedy courtroom dramas such as Jolly LLB, OMG, and others? Then we have good news for you as Ravi Kishan will make his debut in a comedy series in a leading role. The web series Maamla Legal Hai has grabbed much attention ever since the trailer was released. Additionally, no one can make comedy films funnier than Ravi Kishan in his natural element. The series features a group of lawyers who solve cases in the most dramatic way. If you are looking for something entertaining…

It has been hailed for its unconventional portrayal of a criminal trial, dissecting a couple’s relationship after a man’s deadly fall from the top floor of an Alpine chalet.But the hit French arthouse whodunnit, Anatomy of a Fall, which competes at the Golden Globes this weekend after a series of wins at the European film awards, is also just one element of a wider of renaissance of French auteur films reinventing the courtroom drama.The director of Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet, with the film’s star, Sandra Hüller, at…

Here is a fraught and muscular courtroom drama in the strident 1990s style, with the US legal system fitted out with a top-notch cast including Luke Wilson, Ryan Phillippe, Andy Garcia, Donald Sutherland and Kyle MacLachan. As various lawyers and judges, they ditch suit jackets, roll up shirtsleeves and make show-stopping objections in an account of the 1960s legal case that gave rise to the “Miranda rights” – “You have the right to remain silent … ” It’s a welcome defence of US jurisprudence for an era in which it is…

The city of New York recently witnessed a record payout to George Bell, falsely convicted of murder in 1999, after it emerged prosecutors had deliberately hidden evidence casting doubt on his guilt, giving false statements in court. Bell is the latest in a long line of people, especially Black Americans, unfoundedly convicted. More recently, Jabar Walker and Wayne Gardine were cleared after decades in prison. Conviction integrity units across North America have found serious flaws with many long-standing…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJonathan Majors’ ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari repeatedly broke down in tears as she testified against him for a third day in his ongoing assault trial.At one point Jabbari fled the courtroom through a side door, with her sobs still audible from behind closed doors. Majors’ defense lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, had been playing Jabbari a surveillance video from the night of the alleged assault…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe judge in the Jonathan Majors domestic violence trial is clearing the New York public courtroom of spectators this afternoon (29 November). According to Deadline, Judge Michael Gaffey will allow Majors’ lawyers to argue behind closed doors that a piece of evidence that is currently under seal should be taken out of the case permanently.Seth Zuckerman warned the evidence could “taint…

Over 10 days in early March 2022, five homeless men were shot in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. Two died. With the extraordinary tool of firearms identification analysis, law enforcement linked every shooting to the same gun.Firearms identification analysis involves the microscopic examination and comparison of fired ammunition samples (typically fired bullets and spent cartridge cases recovered at crime scenes), in relation to each other and to test fires produced from recovered firearms. Qualified firearms examiners can…

On July 25, 2021, Pedro Huertas, an American doctor trying to cross from Canada into the U.S. at the Highgate Springs border crossing in Vermont, told a border guard he was bringing one $2,000 stone statue with him.  He was lying. A search of his vehicle revealed nine bubble-wrapped packages of various sizes, one of them long and thin, others small, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. court. When border guards asked Huertas what was inside, he and his wife would not respond to their questions.Three of the…

Action films and thrillers are all very good, but when it comes to watching two stars duke it out on screen, you can’t beat courtroom dramas. Over the years, the courtroom has exerted an inexorable pull on countless directors and screenwriters, and many an actor’s career has been crowned by a triumph with the gavel or on the stand. Here are ten of the best courtroom dramas in movie history. 10. Inherit The Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxFOA85A3w Spencer Tracy had already won his two Academy Awards by the time…

To fully understand a marriage you need to be a part of it. And even then it can seem as if the two partners are communicating in entirely different languages. This is literally the case in the marriage of successful German-born author Sandra (a phenomenal Sandra Hüller) and her French husband, aspiring writer Samuel (Samuel Theis), a union that is forensically and microscopically examined in Justine Triet’s gripping, sinuous, Cannes Palme d’Or-winning courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. Language – Sandra prefers to speak…