Everybody needs good lawyers

I'm not a lawyer - the closest I've gotten to legal studies was a semester of them as a compulsory part of my course at uni - but really, isn't Max's trial on Neighbours one of the absolute shortest in the history of TV, including the hurried Law & Order happy-conclusions-all-'round-with-attractive-young-female-DA-
having-strange-attraction-to-Jack-who-is-possibly-older-than-the-
dinosaurs stuff?

We went to the opening of a trial as part of the course, though, and it was enormously boring - choosing the jury, hours of questioning of one witness, etc. Although the case itself was amusing enough...

Anways, back to Neighbours - apparently it's meant to be wrapped up tonight with a win?! Do none of these characters go to jail? Katya gets a suspended sentance or something, Max runs over the non-psycho twin (an easy mistake to make, happens all the time, just say you're sorry and it'll all be fine, then wheel out the psycho twin, make them have a big psychotic moment and voila! The jury won't convict!) and apparently doesn't get to go to jail where he could have met a new love interest and discovered his passion for creating tattoos with Bic ink?

Wouldn't he have gotten into trouble for breaking bail conditions for oh, say six months or whatever it was, as well as that little matter of running someone over on purpose? Speaking of that, wouldn't there be expert testimony and all sorts of scene investigation elements that would have some sort of proof it wasn't just a bit of an accidental swerving? Okay, I can understand the suspended sentence with a reduced charge approach or similar, but still...

Neighbours is just brain candy, but this is annoying, especially when it makes Days of Our Lives look more realistic.

Maybe Max should have just pretended it wasn't actually him driving the car at the time, but an American friend who's actually long since dead (and was dead at the time of the accident, too, just for convenience's sake)... Oh wait, that's just for speeding tickets.

Back in the good ol' days, where Stu and Connor's struggles to adopt as a couple moved the nation and encouraged more men to breast-feed...