I have been watching this show periodically since 2006 or so. While it's entertaining and the "verdicts" can be amusing, it's just not reality. On numerous episodes, the "judge" has claimed that someone in his court was guilty of an offense that has nothing to do with his "court." An example would be someone coming into this "court" because their employee supposedly stole a ring/candlestick/Babe Ruth baseball card (just insert your own stock valuable item, I guess), but then the "judge" gets a call, supposedly at random, or maybe he "discovers" someone in the audience wearing the ring, using the candlestick, licking the Babe Ruth card, which then absolves the "defendant" of any wrongdoing. He then likes to ask for the "State Police." Unfortunately, Texas doesn't have State Police. We have the Texas Department of Public Safety, commonly known as the DPS here, but they are never referred to as the "state police," especially by a judge. The "state police" will then come in and "arrest" someone, despite a complete lack of any actual investigation. In reality that would lead to a ton of lawsuits against the State of Texas. Basically, it's a take on The People's Court that unfortunately seems to fall more under the realm of Night Court. It can be a very entertaining show, but it represents the current Texas Judicial system the same way Star Trek represents NASA. That is to say a completely unrealistic image of our current capabilities. Maybe in the future all judges will be issued bats in lieu of gavels. Who knows? It would be nice if the actual courts worked that way and everything could be resolved within a 30-minute time slot. OJ would be sentenced to spending the day cleaning up an Emergency Room, Phil Spector would be sentenced to being ridiculed by his employees and forced to do menial tasks, CEOs convicted of financial crimes would be sentenced to work as janitors at their companies for minimum wage, it could be interesting. It's a fun show to watch when you're bored, but it's not going to help you get through Law School.