You hafta unnerstand da justiss system in Gnu Yak, YaKnow.
I grew up in fablus noo yawk city, but I’m just a redneck born in the wrong place. I have a cousin who retired from the NYPD as a detective lieutenant, ending his career on the Manhattan District Attorney’s homicide squad. Sort of the Chris Noth character. (I think Chris Noth’s character may have been based on my cousin, they are similar in appearance and dress and he retired about the time the show started.) The cousin acquired a law license while “on the job” and now practices criminal law, with the bulk of his work coming from the PBA. (He was on the Amadou Diallo case, though I got the impression he had a very low opinion of the behaviour of his clients.)
I have some appreciation of the perverse nature of New York’s criminal justice system.