Law breakers, law enforcers, lawyers, the law - in 13 frank documentary films set in Florida, USA.
4: Lady Ellen and Lady Law
Ellen Morphonios is an ex-chat-show hostess, an ex-wife (twice), and a crack shot with a muzzle-loading musket. She is also a no-nonsense Circuit Court Judge, with a penchant for Draconian sentences peppered with home-spun wisdom. One major regret of hers is that many criminals she has sentenced to the chair are still awaiting electrocution.
One of the judge's many admirers is a pretty young Prosecuting Attorney called Carol Guralnick , who set out to follow in the foot-steps of this doyenne of Miami jurisprudence, by standing for election herself as a Circuit Eleven Judge. CAROL GURALNICK seems to have all the qualifications. For she. too, is a former radio personality and an uncompromising hard-liner -and that counts in a state where judges are elected by the people, and not appointed as in Britain.
Film cameraman COLIN DEEHAN Film recordist JOHN PRITCHARD Film editor JOHN BARNES Research mo BOWYER
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Producer MARK ANDERSON