Although lacking in credibility at times at the legal technical detail level, for the sake of plot line, it is hard to improve on the old Dallas episodes to show how the system really worked at the local and even state level, especially the dueling machinations of J. R. Ewing and Cliff Barnes.
If anything, it probably understates the actual influence of the big players at the state and local level, in that Ewing and Barnes were merely small oil company independents.
It also entirely fails to address, because of ethnic white only plot limitations, the ubiquitous nature of racial bias in the systems at the local level.
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