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7/10
The past comes back to haunt
bkoganbing29 May 2019
Back several years ago when Hailey Dean was an ADA she was second chair on a homicide that the current DA Lauren Holly prosecuted. The perpetrator is now getting out and he's written a book excoriating the criminal justice system and says in an interview that if something ever happens to him blame the DA.

Well when he doesn't show up for a book signing it's because he was murdered and the weapon is found in Holly's car. She's arrested and that's when Kellie Martin and Viv Leacock go to work.

In addition to people connected to the deceased, Lauren Holly has some other enemies on her own who are taking advantage of the situation.

At one point without realizing it then Kellie Martin identifies the murderer by watching a tape without sound of a conversation between the murderer and the victim. Body language tells a lot.

This is a nicely told tale and remember the body language.
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7/10
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer Sentence
JoBloTheMovieCritic20 July 2019
7/10 - a worthy installment in the Hailey Dean mystery series
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Unrealistically Naive
pmitsi-18 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I have been watching a lot of the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries in the past few months (too much time on my hands because of the Covid measures and restrictions, I guess) and I find this the most interesting for 2 reasons: a) it is more realistic for a former DA to be able to solve crime mysteries than, for example, a librarian, a lecturer or a cook!(?), and b) Hailey Dean suits better for the part rather than other sugar-coated heroines.

This particular episode I found a bit unrealistic, and thus less easy, to follow mainly due to the character of Paulina.

It is hard for me to believe that a person with so much lack of good judgment can end up in a DA position (even if there are real-life examples of that, I guess).

She was stalking an ex convict... She was messing up her job... In the very first scene of this episode we see her being reprimanded on the phone by her superior in frond of her staff... She is naïve enough to believe that when they found the murder weapon in her car her former member of her staff (Alex) was coming to exonerate her...

At some point I stopped empathizing with her. I was thinking that a person as incompetent as she maybe it is not so bad to be stripped of her duties.
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5/10
Just ok
alawrence-2687430 May 2019
Parts are good, parts are just bad dialogue and unrealistic. The good scenes with Hailey and Fincher but the best scenes are Hailey and Jonas.
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