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* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' at Joy's trial the prosecutor introduces a surprise audio recording that shows Joy's bad character. You'd think there would be a law that says stuff like that has to be disclosed to the defence...
* A variation in ''[[The Chicago Code]]'', though not specifically confined to a trial. The CPD has been trying to indict Alderman Gibbons for months, and finally get the evidence to arrest him through a series of events that nearly gets their undercover cop killed. Then, when it turns out that the evidence isn't enough to convict him, they discover that Wysocki's brother collected rock-solid evidence of his corruption before he died, which makes everything else moot.
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* ''[[Boston Legal]]'': One episode featured a witness for the prosecution surprising everyone by stating he filmed the crime. Despite the defence having not been previously made aware of the evidence, Sally Heap, the defendant's attorney, didn't object to its inclusion, which lead to her being berated by one of her superiors at Crane, Poole and Schmidt. She explained that she felt it wasn't the prosecutor's fault. (Which shows she doesn't know the rules, or she'd know that, prosecutor's fault or not, she could - and therefore should - have objected). Despite the defendant having been acquitted, this case is implied to be a reason Alan Shore didn't try to keep her from being fired in a later episode.
* The Canadian TV series ''Exhibit A: Case Studies In Forensic Science'' played with this trope in its accounts of Canadian crime investigations. At some point during each episode, host Graham Greene would present what he called "Exhibit A", the piece of evidence that typically broke the case for the police.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Sometimes shows up in ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'', like {{spoiler|the receipt used to absolve Maya}} in the second case of the first game.
** Subverted at the end of case 4 of game 2, where {{spoiler|Gumshoe and Franziska work desperately to get apparently crucial evidence to the courtroom before the end of the trial, and Phoenix keeps stalling for time to the point that the Judge is seriously pissed, only for the evidence to be (apparently) completely worthless.}}
*** This is doubly subverted in case 3 of game 3, where {{spoiler|Gumshoe gets the fingerprints on a bottle of medicine owned by the victim tested and confirmed to be that of the witness, Furio Tigre, and this occurs at the very last second. However, since the witness has already admitted that he met with the victim, the fingerprints are just redundant evidence that don't prove that the witness actually murdered the victim. Then Phoenix pulls the old trick of [[I Never Said It Was Poison|lying about the evidence in order to trick the witness into revealing knowledge about the murder]]. So the evidence was crucial after all.}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The animation cell in a [[The Simpsons]] episode which revealed the true creator of Itchy and Scratchy.
* In one episode of ''[[
* A repeated Christmas special by [[Cartoon Network]] [[Grandma Got Run Over
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