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The Lincoln Lawyer: Case File for season 1 episode 5

‘Twelve Lemmings in a Box’

Directed by Bill D’Eliah

Jury selection in the Trevor Elliott trial has arrived. Mickey schools the audience on the many strategies and tools related to jury selection. Maggie struggles to keep her case alive when the DA seems to care more about the upcoming election.

Cisco takes measures to draw out another possible suspect to blame while some visitors from his past ask Mickey for a favor. We learn a little more about Lorna’s past as well.

Detective Griggs grows more concerned about a large transaction on Jerry Vincent’s account.

Let us investigate further our case file for The Lincoln Lawyer S1E5 ‘Twelve Lemmings in a Box”.

Mickey is in the mood for a hot dog and wants to give Trevor a sense of the wide demographic from which the jury will be selected. This lands them at famous Pink’s Hot Dogs in Ventura.

Mickey refers to the crowd surrounding the restaurant as Trevor’s jury pool. He points out that Trevor’s Fiskers car is worth more than 5 times the average person’s salary. Trevor finally agrees to drive his late wife’s Prius to trial instead.

Mickey needs Trevor’s agreement on something else as well. He asks Trevor to sign the agreement with the jury consultant for hire. Trevor stops Mickey in his tracks and flatly refuses to sign.

Trevor insists that he is a good judge of people, a trait that has helped him build his business. He plans to participate in all the selection decisions. Mickey tries one more time to offer the services of the jury consultant reminding Trevor that he has been picking juries for a long time.

The answer is still no as Trevor tears up the agreement.

Izzy drives Mickey to The Viper Room where he goes upstairs to watch a high stakes poker game in progress. He is there to speak with the woman named Gwen who wins the game. She and Mickey are clearly already friends. Since Trevor will not allow Mickey to hire a jury consultant, Mickey does the next best, or maybe even better, thing.

Mickey asks Gwen to attend the selection process and feed Mickey intel about jurors who are lying, bluffing, and generally not representing themselves truthfully. She agrees and Mickey lets her know that their arrangement must be kept secret from his client.

Mickey is on a mission to find the witness that disappeared in the Jesus Menendez trial. He wants to find her so she could testify at a habeas hearing to re-examine Jesus’ verdict. She is a prostitute that goes by the name of Glory Days.

With the location of Glory Days unknown, Mickey lures a prostitute named Cherry to a hotel phone using a burner number. Cherry is surprised to find him there and begins yelling at him for bailing on his promise to help with her drug charge if she searched for Glory Days.

Mickey explains his accident and recovery that pulled him away from the original search for Glory Days. He gives Cherry some cash asking her to resume the search for his key witness. She reluctantly obliges and offers additional services. Mickey declines and tells her to keep the room for the balance of the hour.

The next couple of days center around the jury selection for Trevor’s trial. We first see the potential jurors watching a video of Judge Holder explaining the jury process.

Inside the courtroom, Golantz and his colleague have a computer app that will store juror data and essentially automate the decision-making process. At the other table, Mickey prepares his paper system for making those decisions, an array of different colored markers and sticky notes on a paper grid.

Golantz pokes fun at Mickey for his old school methodology, but Mickey claims nothing beats the human interpretation of a juror’s answers. Mickey’s poker friend Gwen sits in the gallery and texts him a note of encouragement.

Over the next two days, the defense and prosecution narrow the jury pool to 12 jurors and 2 alternates. What occurs in between is a peek inside the many factors, rules and tools used in selecting a jury.

Sometimes we see Mickey in dialogue with Izzy on the long desert road. Other times it may be Mickey explaining something to Trevor. Or the rules may be explained by a sidebar the attorneys have with Judge Stanton.

Here are some of the key points demonstrated throughout the process:

The poker player actively shares her feedback throughout the process texting Mickey which jurors she thinks are lying. She studies the jurors carefully looking for physical signs of lying or discomfort. She even tells Mickey that she sees Trevor has a habit of rubbing his leg when he is uncomfortable or nervous about something.

A young man calls to Lorna in the hall outside the courtroom. He reminds her that they shared a torts class at Southwestern Law School.

Wait, Lorna was in law school? The fellow student named Ryan recalls how smart Lorna was and wonders why she left school. Lorna struggles to give an excuse and simply refers to life and work as the reason. She tells Ryan she needs to go.

Maggie’s boss, Janelle Simmons, is running for District Attorney against a candidate named Robert Cardone who, of course, is running negative ads about Janelle. Janelle tells Maggie that all cases need to be bulletproof.

Maggie’s case hit a major setback when her primary witness, David Loresca, was recently murdered. Janelle is skeptical about pursuing the case. Maggie insists that the defendant Angelo Soto is behind Loresca’s murder, not a carjacking.

If they can prove that Soto is responsible for Loresca’s murder, they can still use the grand jury testimony of the deceased witness. Janelle agrees to move forward if Maggie can prove Soto planned David’s demise. Otherwise, she is considering dropping the human trafficking charges all together.

Lankford and Maggie team up to identify a plan for exposing Soto for the hit on their star witness. The detective mentions the name of Soto’s girlfriend, Tanya Cruz. A little research shows that Tanya is originally from the Philippines and was not wealthy before her involvement with Soto.

They hope to find some leverage to use against Tanya, so that she will testify to Soto’s involvement in Loresca’s death. A bit of super-sleuthing uncovers a photo of Soto and Tanya leaving an OB/GYN office together. Maggie surmises that Tanya is pregnant.

Lankford and Maggie approach Tanya Cruz as she puts shopping bags in her car. They tell her that they know she is pregnant with Soto’s baby. Tanya has completed her first trimester.

Maggie talks about Tanya’s name being on some of Soto’s accounts. This will tie Tanya to his misdeeds, and she could land in jail pregnant and unable to keep her baby. Tanya claims she is not familiar with Soto’s business dealings.

Maggie says it is in her favor if she does have information to leverage. She tells her it is dangerous to talk to anyone but an attorney and offers her Mickey’s card.

We learn a little more about Izzy’s background when she speaks on the phone in frustration. Mickey leaves the courthouse and hears her getting off the phone. He wants to make sure she is okay. She says she was talking to her ex-girlfriend named Rae.

Izzy is worried about some photos from Rae that make Izzy think she is using drugs. She feels responsible having been the one to get Rae into drugs in the first place.

Just as Izzy and Mickey are planning to leave, a motorcycle gang rides up in front of the Lincoln. A rider named Ted approaches Mickey about helping one of their members named Hard Case Casey with a parole issue. Mickey agrees and Ted mentions Cisco. We get the impression that this is the Cisco’s old gang.

Mickey returns to the Lincoln and Izzy asks Mickey if he is indebted to the gang. Mickey agrees there is a reason he feels like he must help them.

Speaking of Cisco, he conveniently goes for a manicure at the same nail salon that Neema Shavar is visiting. Neema is another one of the clients that Jan Rilz was seeing “privately”.

Cisco makes small talk about pedicures and then brings up her relationship with Rilz and the restraining order Rilz took out on her ex-husband. Cisco advises Neema to prepare to answer questions for the murder trial, suggesting her ex could be the killer.

Neema emphatically tells Cisco to leave her alone, but Cisco knows he upset her just enough to tell her ex about the incident.

Sure enough, Anton Shavar shows up at Cisco’s place and harasses him for confronting his wife, er ex-wife. Anton threatens Cisco if he ever speaks to Neema again and gives Cisco a peek inside his coat jacket revealing a gun and holster.

Later we learn that during Cisco’s sewing project earlier in the day, he was adding a tiny hidden camera to his jacket that looks a button. Cisco now has Anton’s threat on video ready for Mickey to use if needed.

Mickey stops by Maggie’s house after the jury is locked in for the Elliott trial. He has been trying to reach her about their close encounter the other night. Maggie apologizes for not getting back to him sooner.

Maggie insists that she was not in her right mind when she almost kissed him. He flirts with her saying she seemed like herself to him. Before Mickey leaves, she tells him wants to ask him for a favor. He agrees and she says she will share the details the next day.

Mickey makes his way home and is about to open his front door when he hears someone come up behind and startles him. It is Griggs who has approached him.

Griggs tells Mickey that Jerry Vincent withdrew $150,000 in cash within a couple months of his murder. Vincent claimed it was to purchase a boat, but Griggs cannot find any boat registered to Jerry. Between the cash and a record of calls with the FBI, Griggs tells Mickey that he is worried that the money was for a bribe.

Who’s jury selection tool do you think is better? Would you be more likely to use Golantz’s computer app or Mickey’s sticky notes and color coding? I feel like Mickey’s old school method offers more flexibility but it certainly seems more labor intensive. I’m going to trust Mick!

Trevor Elliott is quickly approaching my last nerve with his demands on Mickey. Yes, Mickey works for the client, but his expertise is being compromised by Elliott’s interference. In other news, Ted Vogul of the motorcycle club makes me very nervous. 

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