Legal dramas give us nice fantasies of the right thing happening at the last minute after it looked like a gross miscarriage of justice was completely unavoidable. The Good Wife is no exception. On last night's episode, Alicia Florrick's (Julianna Margulies) pro bono case has her defending a white man identified by a black eyewitness (Sterling K. Brown) as a convenience store robber. It isn't until close to the end that it is revealed that the black eyewitness is in fact the perpetrator of the crime, and the innocent man is set free.
Meanwhile, Diane Lockhart (Christine Baransky) decides that the firm must stop doing pro bono cases, and urges those attorneys with pending pro bono cases to plead them out. Diane goes to visit the legal aid clinic to tell them in person, but instead winds up offering them office space at her firm when learning that they're going to get kicked out of their current office.
That's nice, but I wonder how many law firms are actually doing that in real life. Another difference between real life and this particular episode: In real life, the black eyewitness would have been treated like a suspect from the get-go.
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