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Year Six Begins for a Court TV Host With Convictions

The day after Court TV celebrated her five-year anniversary at the network with a press lunch at New York's The Four Seasons, Catherine Crier is back on the set of Catherine Crier Live. And she's taking a stand. Earlier that day, the 1st Court of Appeals in Houston overturned Andrea Yates' murder convictions. Crier's guest is former New York City prosecutor Lisa Pinto, a recurring on-air commentator. Pinto is upset with the ruling, which threw out an earlier decision that Yates had drowned her children; Crier sides with the appellate court.

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The Yates case takes up the first half of this Crier Live. As the control room cues Crier into the last minute of the segment, Yate's attorney George Parnham is talking and Pinto's struggling to get one more thought in. Just as the director finishes his countdown into Crier's earpiece to wrap up for commercials, Pinto blurts out her point. Crier responds and Parnham joins in. At last, Crier ends the discussion, weighing in one more time on the side of the appellate decision, and they cut to the now-delayed commercial.

A former Texas state judge, Crier says she became a more vocal advocate after writing her book The Case Against Lawyers, which was published in 2002. "It encouraged me to engage people with my opinions and defend them more vociferously than in the past. I'm more willing now on the program to make my view clear and make a case for it.

But I don't shout down others, and I'm willing to be illuminated by others."

Crier keeps the heated exchanges from getting personal--at least she did that day. "Lisa [Pinto] and I are great friends," she says. "We can be candid and disagree vehemently. Most people understand our show is an intellectual exchange."

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Year Six Begins for a Court TV Host With Convictions

Cable World, Feb 7, 2005

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