Experience transmitted by media is sometimes a functional equivalent for experience gained in the real world. American movies have influenced the image of legal procedure a great deal – and not just in the United States of America. An English legal expert told us about seeing a young barrister try to proceed before an English court in a manner that is possible only in the United States. A Spanish anthropologist who had filmed legal procedures in California carried her camera into a Spanish courtroom and was shocked to discover that everything was done differently from how it was done in the United States. German defendants and lay assessors.
