Ok...I found something interesting, it might not mean much but on an affiliate gossip site to TMZ (mediatakeout.com), they are running a story where they basically uncovered and verified that a seemingly real court case on a well known reality tv show "the Housewives of Atlanta" was actually "staged".
So for Murray's case since the seal isn't legit, this may have very well been a prop set for the Murray case. I believe anti hoax people argue that courts wouldn't go along with a hoax however for this reality show, the Judge that appeared on the show wasn't a real Judge however they did use the name of a real Judge in atlanta...a search concluded that these two were clearly not the same, the real judge whose name was used in the show was in fact a black woman while the one that appeared on the show was a white woman. Is that legal? Like for entertainment purposes?
When I came across this story today, knowing this show is a reality show and hearing Ed Chernoff repeat "this isn't a reality show but reality" during his closing statements just gave me a weird feeling and i didn't know where else to share it but on here.
I guess my question is, is it legal for a real Judge's name to be used falsely for entertainment purposes?
The link to the story is included below:
http://cdn.mediatakeout.com/52998/mto-world-exclusive-the-atlanta-housewives-is-a-fraud-they-staged-the-entire-sheree-bob-court-battle-it-s-all-fake-and-yes-we-got-proof.html